Row grows over status of Kurdish oil exports

摘要

Amman-The precarious status of crude oil exports from the northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan was again highlighted September 11 and 12, as confusion spread about a temporary suspension of exports and whether they had been halted for technical or political reasons. Iraqi oil minister Abdul Karim Luaibi said September 11 the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) had "stopped pumping oil extracted from the Kurdistan region, which used to be pumped to the northern national pipelines" without explanation.