Iraq/Kurdistan: Kurdistan exporting oil from disputed fields

Nov 11, 2014 | Ben Van Heuvelen, Iraq Oil Report
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Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is now exporting oil from fields it recently seized from federal authorities - a step that takes Kurdistan much closer to economic independence and farther away from political reconciliation with Baghdad.The KRG is pumping about 120,000 barrels per day (bpd) from two areas formerly controlled by the federal Oil Ministry's North Oil Company (NOC) - the Avana Dome, which is one of the formations of the Kirkuk oil field, and the Bai Hassan