{"id":4618,"date":"2023-04-02T13:20:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T13:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=4618"},"modified":"2023-04-02T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T13:20:10","slug":"iraq-to-ask-turkey-to-restart-northern-oil-exports-after-initial-krg-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/4618\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq to ask Turkey to restart northern oil exports after initial KRG deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p>Iraq&#8217;s federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have reached an initial agreement to restart northern oil exports this week, a KRG spokesman said on Sunday, and Baghdad will write to Turkey to request a resumption in pipeline flows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey stopped pumping about 450,000 b\/d of Iraqi crude from a pipeline from the Fish-Khabur border area to its Ceyhan port on March 25 after Iraq won an\u00a0arbitration case. Baghdad had argued that Turkey had violated a joint agreement by allowing the KRG to export oil to Ceyhan without its consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Following several meetings between the KRG and federal government, an initial agreement has been reached to resume oil exports through Ceyhan this week,&#8221; Lawk Ghafuri, head of foreign media affairs for the KRG wrote in a Twitter post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This agreement will remain in effect until the oil and gas law bill is approved by Iraqi Parliament,&#8221; Ghafuri said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The halted flows only account for about 0.5% of global oil supply, but the stoppage, which forced oil firms operating in the region to\u00a0halt output\u00a0or move production into rapidly-filling storage tanks, still helped boost oil prices last week back to near $80\/bbl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0agreement states\u00a0that Iraq&#8217;s northern oil exports will be jointly exported by Iraq&#8217;s state-owned marketing company SOMO and the KRG&#8217;s ministry of natural resources (MNR), sources told Reuters on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resumption of pipeline flows from Iraq&#8217;s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region will still need approval from Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A letter of request to resume oil flows will be sent by Baghdad to Ankara,&#8221; a KRG official told Reuters on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources last week told Reuters that Turkey wants an\u00a0unfinished court case\u00a0settled with Iraq before the pipeline reopens.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2023-04-02T13:20:10+00:00\"> 2 April 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iraq&#8217;s federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have reached an initial agreement to restart northern oil exports this week, a KRG spokesman said on Sunday, and Baghdad will write to Turkey to request a resumption in pipeline flows. Turkey stopped pumping about 450,000 b\/d of Iraqi crude from a pipeline from the Fish-Khabur [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,36,19,16,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}