The Kurdistan Regional Government asked a U.S. judge to reject the Iraqi Oil Ministry’s bid to use new legal theories to seek a second seizure order for $100 million of Kurdish crude waiting in a tanker off the Texas coast. U.S. District Judge Gray Miller ruled last month he had no authority to decide which government rightfully owns the cargo, which was pumped from wells in the autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq and exported through a Turkish pipeline. He threw out a U.S. magistrate’s arrest warrant that would have allowed federal agents to seize the crude and store it ashore at the Iraqi government’s expense, if the ship enters U.S. territorial waters, until the ownership dispute can be resolved. The judge gave the Iraqis a chance to revise their suit, and the central government asked to add new legal theories to try for a […]