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How the US got mixed up in a fight over Kurdish oil — with a unified Iraq at stake
Washington Post - Aug 4, 2014
The oil tanker SCF Byrranga, which was renamed the United Kalavrvta in March, is seen near the Isle of Arran, Scotland. The tanker is currently off the coast of Texas, carrying $100 million worth ofKurdish crude oil. (Tom Duncan/Thomson Reuters Eikon).
Iraq Fails To Seize Kurdish Crude Oil Bound for Texas
The National Law Review - 15 hours ago
The saga of 1,032,212 barrels of crude oil continues. A week ago, a tanker carrying over a million barrels of crude oil from the Kurdish region of Northern Iraq arrived 60 miles off the Port of Galveston,Texas. It had been a very unusual journey. The Kurdish ...
Iraq seeks seizure of Kurdistan oil in tanker sitting off Texas coast
Journal of Turkish Weekly - Aug 5, 2014
A vessel called United Kalavryta, containing 1 million barrels of crude oil from Kurdistan, is sitting in international waters off the coast of Galveston, Texas. The government of Iraq considers the shipment illegal, because Kurdistan, not Baghdad, approved its ...
Kurdish Government Asks Texas Court To Lift Order Against Oil Cargo
BasNews - Aug 5, 2014
“On Monday, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) filed a motion in a Texas court to lift an order against a cargo of crude oil legally produced, exported, and sold by the KRG in accordance with Iraqi constitution and law,” the Natural Resource Ministry ...
Kurds counter claims over oil off Texas coast
UPI.com - Aug 5, 2014
The United States has stood by a policy of emphasizing oil sales must go through the federal government, but said there is no outright ban on Kurdish crude oil sales. The 33-page complaint in the Southern District of Texas from the Kurdish government says ...
Genel confident of big rise in piped oil exports from Kurdistan
Financial Times - Aug 5, 2014
One tanker of Kurdish crude loaded at Ceyhan remains anchored off Morocco while last week Baghdad launched legal action in Texas aimed at stymying sales of Kurdish oil into the US market. Ashti Hawrami, the KRG's oil minister, last week challenged that ...
A tanker's tale: Iraq's oil divide - caught up in a row between Kurdistan and ...
The Independent - Aug 5, 2014
The core of the dispute: the Iraqi government says that the crude cargo belongs to the Baghdad Ministry of Oil and that it was never the property of the Kurdistan Regional Government. But the Kurds argue that the Texas court doesn't have jurisdiction, and they ...
Battle of wits for Iraqi-Kurdish oil
BusinessDay - Aug 5, 2014
US authorities are set to seize the United Kalavrvta's cargo of oil from Iraqi Kurdistan anchored off the Texas coast after a judge approved a request from Baghdad, raising the stakes in an oil sales dispute between Iraq's central government and the ...
With $100 million cargo, oil tanker carries Kurdish hopes
Al-Monitor - Aug 5, 2014
An oil tanker at anchor just outside US territorial waters off the state of Texas is an omen of the new Middle East dynamics. The tanker United Kalavryta is laden with $100 million worth of oil from theKurdistan Regional Government (KRG) it loaded at Turkey's ...
Kurds ask US court to scrap seizure order, allow crude delivery
Yahoo News - Aug 4, 2014
Arguing that all oil sales outside its control are illegal, Baghdad last week filed a lawsuit to gain control of the cargo aboard the United Kalavrvta tanker. Last week, U.S. refiner LyondellBasell said it had recently bought cargoes of Iraqi Kurdistan crude but said ...
