Kirkuk has received new payments for exported oil from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) bringing up the total amount paid to Kirkuk to $50m since December 2015.
Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani confirmed on Wednesday that talks were taking place between BP and Baghdad over the northern Kirkuk oilfield.
An explosion on one of the two pipelines bringing crude from Kirkuk in Iraq to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean led to a large fire on Thursday, shutting oil flows on that pipe, a Turkish energy offici ...