Restart of Kurdistan Oil Exports Still in Limbo

Despite assurances from the federal Iraqi government that the resumption of oil exports from Kurdistan is imminent, the foreign oil firms operating in the semi-autonomous Iraqi region said on Friday they would not be resuming oil exports today. Last week, Iraq’s Oil Minister Hayyan Abdul Ghani said that Iraq and Kurdistan expect to complete all work to resume oil exports from the semi-autonomous region by the end of March, following a two-year hiatus due to a dispute over authority over crude flows. Oil exports from Kurdistan have now…