Iraq: Shahrastani, DNO and the export license issuenote

DNO of Norway expects Baghdad and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) to agree in the coming months on how to settle the issue of the KRG oil contracts and thus allow it to export oil from northern Iraq. The following 348-word report focuses on the issue of the KRG oil contracts and tells what rules Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein Al-Shahrastani maintains to apply. It also tells what the export license issue is about and what Baghdad’s position is.