SOMO to Shafaq News: Kurdistan’s oil exports depend on the producing companies
SOMO to Shafaq News: Kurdistan’s oil exports depend on the producing companies
2025-09-06 06:40
Shafaq News – Baghdad
The head of the State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO), Ali Nizar, confirmed on Saturday that the resumption of Kurdistan’s oil exports depends on the producing companies.
Nizar told Shafaq News Agency, “The agreement between the federal Ministry of Oil, the Oil Marketing Company, and the Ministry of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan Region established strict mechanisms for implementing the budget law.”
He added, “We are optimistic about the agreement and the mechanisms, and we hope to proceed with pumping oil from the Kurdistan Region via the Turkish-Ceyhan pipeline, as this is in Iraq’s best interest and will boost its financial revenues.”
He stressed that “the timing of resuming oil exports depends on the oil-producing companies.”
Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein revealed on Saturday that “regarding the agreement between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government, there is significant progress on the issue of non-oil revenues,” suggesting that an understanding will likely be reached “within the next few days .”
Regarding the oil issue, he added, “The problem was not between the federal government and the oil companies, or between the regional government and the oil companies, but rather a tripartite one. The next few days will witness a solution to this issue as well.”
The roots of the recent salary crisis between the federal government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) lie in ongoing disagreements over oil export mechanisms and the unification of public revenues. This is a long-standing crisis that resurfaces from time to time, but it has significantly worsened since May 2025, when the federal government refused to send salaries to KRG employees.
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