Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq’s Kurds Bypass State for Oil Exports to Tighten Control

Jul 14, 2015 | Khalid Al Ansary, Bruce Stanley, and Anthony Dipaola, Bloomberg
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Iraq’s self-ruled Kurds are bypassing the government in Baghdad and independently selling all the crude oil exported from their region for the first time as they take greater control of their own affairs. The Kurds are shipping as much as 600,000 barrels of oil a day from their fields and haven’t sold any oil through the national marketing agency since June, Safeen Dizayee, a spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government, or KRG, said on Monday.