Highlights Draft budget states KRG must hand over 250,000 b/d Parliamentary vote on budget scheduled for March 15 Baghdad has blamed KRG for OPEC quota violations Dubai — Iraq has not received any barrels of crude from the semiautomous Kurdistan Regional Government, a federal oil ministry official said March 14, with the two sides still embroiled in a budget stalemate. Not registered? Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Talks continue between the federal government in Baghdad and the KRG “in the hope of reaching a bilateral agreement that serves the interest of the country,” Hamid Yunus al-Zobaei was quoted as saying by the official Iraq News Agency. A draft budget, which Kurdish news agency Rudaw reported will be put to a vote in the federal parliament on March 15, calls for the KRG to hand over 250,000 b/d of its crude production to […]