Russian Firms Set to Restart Oil Projects in Kurdistan

Russian oil companies will soon be able to restart their oil projects in Kurdistan after the semi-autonomous Iraqi region and the federal government of Iraq resolved all their disagreements regarding oil production and exports, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev said on Thursday. “We received crucial information [from the Iraqi authorities], and both the minister and the prime minister assured us that the issues related to disagreements between the federal government [of Iraq] and the Kurdistan government have been resolved,” Russia…