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Article: US State Department denies it encouraged Texas-based oil company to sign deal with Iraqi Kurds
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- July 3, 2008
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The U.S. State Department denied charges Thursday by a House committee that it inappropriately encouraged a Texas-based oil company to strike an exploration deal with the Kurdish government in northern Iraq.
Hunt Oil Co.'s contract with the Kurds, reached last September, angered Iraq's central government in Baghdad, which said deals with foreign companies should not be signed until lawmakers agreed how the nation's oil revenues would be divided. The issue remains unresolved and continues to be among the most contentious within the Iraqi Parliament.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters the department advised all U.S. oil companies, including Hunt Oil, ...