Kirkuk Field

Iraq is still in talks with Turkey and Kurdish regional authorities to resume Kirkuk oil exports through the Ceyhan port, Iraqi Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi told state-run newspaper al-Sabah on July 2.

A Turkish energy delegation has met with Iraqi top oil officials in Baghdad to discuss issues including the resumption of Kirkuk oil exports via the Turkish port of Ceyhan, Iraq’s oil ministry said in a statement on Nov. 16.

Iraq's state-run North Oil Company stopped feeding a pipeline to Turkey with crude produced at fields it operates in the Kirkuk region three days ago, two sources said on March 14.

The order to halt pumping through the pipeline came from the oil ministry in Baghdad, a company official, who asked not be identified, said. 

Turkish Energy Minister Taner Y?ld?z has said he will visit Baghdad on Jan. 18 to discuss new projects with Iraqi ministers.

The central government in Iraq has begun constructing a new oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Arbil to increase oil exports from region, an official from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said on Jan. 11.

Islamic State militants seized four small oilfields when they swept through north Iraq last month and are now selling crude oil and gasoline from them to finance their newly declared "caliphate".