State Oil Marketing Organization
Baghdad makes $455 million budget payment to Kurds for March
Baghdad cut the budget payments in January 2014 over the semi-autonomous region's plans to export its oil through Turkey but reinstated them in December after the Kurds agreed to export an average of 550,000 barrels per day (bpd) from Ceyhan via Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) in 2015.
Iraqi Kurds say meeting schedule of Baghdad oil export deal
Iraq's Kurdistan region said on March 9 it was on track to keep its side of an oil export deal reached with the federal government in December and urged Baghdad to uphold its own end of the bargain.
Sweeping energy agenda and construction frenzy mark bumpy Turkish economy in 2014
Deals regarding Iraqi oil were some of the most significant developments in the last year for Turkey's economy.
Turkey’s Tüpraş to buy crude from KRG sold by Baghdad
Turkeyâs sole oil refiner TüpraÅ will begin purchasing crude oil from northern Iraq shipped by pipeline and sold by the Iraqi stateâs Oil Marketing Company (SOMO), Deputy General Manager Hasan Tan said on Nov. 21.
The oil will be transported to the Turkish Mediterranean port town of Ceyhan, Tan told reporters on the sidelines of an energy conference.
Ankara brushes off Iraq’s Kurdish oil claims
Turkey has insisted that the export of Kurdish Iraqi oil to the world is Iraqâs internal business, downplaying opposition from Baghdad, which has accused Turkey of worsening the row over who controls Iraqâs resources.
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