Iraq Kurds Discovered 3-4 Billion Barrels, Oil Minister Says

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Masif Salahuddin, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdish north has discovered three billion to four billion bbls of oil, and hopes for far more, a minister said. Ashti Hawrami, Iraqi Kurdistan's natural resources minister, said in an interview that total reserves in the area now recognized as Kurdistan, where minority Kurds have been largely independent since the end of the 1991 Gulf War, were an estimated 40-45 billion bbls.