A picture taken on November 25, 2013 shows oil rigs in the Kurdish town of Derik (al-Malikiyah in Arabic), in the northeastern Hasakeh governorate on the border with Turkey and Iraq. (File photo: AFP)
Iraq’s oil minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani said on Sunday he expects to reach an agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and foreign oil companies operating in the Kurdish region to resume oil production from the region’s oilfields within three days.
Abdel-Ghani said during a visit to Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan, that Iraq has reached an “understanding” with Turkey in relating to the resumption of northern oil exports through the Iraq-Turkey pipeline.
