Baghdad and KRG Close to Deal to Resume Iraq’s Northern Oil Exports

This handout photo released by the Iraqi prime minister's office on April 1, 2023, shows a view of installations at the Karbala oil refinery in the eponymous governorate, on the date it launched operations. (Iraqi Prime Minister Media Office / AFP)

Iraq's federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) are close to striking a deal aimed at resuming northern oil exports, four sources familiar with the discussions told Reuters on Saturday.

Türkiye stopped pipeline flows from the Kirkuk fields in northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region to its port of Ceyhan on March 25, after it lost an arbitration case brought by Baghdad.