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Article: The Baghdad-Erbil Oil Dispute.
- Article from:
- APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy
- Article date:
- June 22, 2009
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Although Kurdistan is exporting 35,000 b/d of crude oil through Turkey, Baghdad still regards KRG's exploration and production sharing agreements (EPSAs) with international oil companies (IOCs) as illegal and wants to see them annulled. But Kurdistan's exports are set to reach 100,000 b/d before end-2009, being produced from DNO's Tawke field and Taq Taq which is developed by a JV of Genel Enerji of Turkey and Swiss-based Addax Petroleum of Canada. Exports began on June 1 in a ceremony attended by Kurdistan President Mas'oud Barzani and top-ranking officials from Baghdad. Yet the dispute over KRG's EPSAs is serious as the Kurdish leaders keep insisting on them, while ...