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South Kurdistan oil & gas development
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the SUN child
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Jun 20 14, 9:00
Tanker carrying disputed pipeline Kurdish oil arrives in Israel
Great, I’m sure Israel will be the first country in the world that would recognise an independent Kurdistan!

Those who buy Kurdish oil (Turkye excluded) are friends of Kurdistan and don’t mind what Arabs think about them.
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Tanker carrying disputed pipeline Kurdish oil arrives in Israel[/url]
Great, I’m sure Israel will be the first country in the world that would recognise an independent Kurdistan!

Those who buy Kurdish oil (Turkye excluded) are friends of Kurdistan and don’t mind what Arabs think about them.
Israel seems to be our only friend. All these arab countries are useless. So muslim brotherhood in my ass. And we should take Israel idea and build a wall around us.
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The reality is that who ever buys our oil we will sell it to them, arabs Jews Europeans Asians you name...
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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I'm not denying. Actually I do encourage such kind of policies. But whoever buys our oil does recognise that he is buying oil from the Kurds or Kurdish oil. By buying it, he recognises the Kurdish entity.
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Jun 20 14, 8:14
KRG Spokesperson to KNNC: All KRG‌'s Oil in Turkey‌'s Ceyhan Port Sold

Hewlêr, Kurdistan region- Spokesperson of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Safeen Dizayee, says that all the oil that was transported to Turkey‌'s Ceyhan port has been sold.

Dizayye told Kurdish Network News Channel KNNC that all the income of the sold oil will be returned to Kurdistan Confederation .

Speaking about the process and continuation of sending oil, Dizayye added that the KRG will never be a setback in importing oil.

Since the beginning of 2014, Hewlêr and Baghdad have held several meetings to discuss how to export Kurdistan's energy to Turkey but they have failed to reach an agreement, hence Maliki, Iraq's Prime Minister, unilaterally decided to cut the Kurdish share of the national budget.

Dizayee explains that the oil which was sent to Turkey over the past few months have been sold according to international standards and prices, hence refuting Baghdad‌'s accusations that the oil was sold at a lower price

KRG has borrowed money from some oil companies to provide an adequate budget for KRG's employees; moreover, the KRG announced that they started sending oil to provide civic salaries.

KRG is determined to export oil to Turkey‌s Ceyhan port despite chaos, a political vacuum and war caused by the Sunni Jihadist militants, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham, ISIS.

http://knnc.net/en/full-story-37198-28-False
The big question about the oil is: When will we see the money? How long will it take to transfer? Soon one month since the first tanker left.

The market is awaiting to see the money reaching the seller, KRG and the oilcompany.
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What do you people closer too the KRG think of this?

@shwankamiran: Unofficial: Letter from PM #Maliki to Pres Barzani contains budgetary solutions.For 5 years Oil is for Kurds, thereafter 17% to go up to 30%

Any truth in it?
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Israel seems to be our only friend. All these arab countries are useless. So muslim brotherhood in my ass. And we should take Israel idea and build a wall around us.
expect Jordan, Lebanon and maybe Kuwait otherwise I agree. Also Egypt till now seemed kind of friendly towards Kurds.
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Jun 22 14, 1:26
What do you people closer too the KRG think of this?

@shwankamiran: Unofficial: Letter from PM #Maliki to Pres Barzani contains budgetary solutions.For 5 years Oil is for Kurds, thereafter 17% to go up to 30%

Any truth in it?
Nope. Even if it was anything from Iran or Maliki is a lie we ain't gonna fall for their crap again. We have all we need why make agreement on something you already have!? Let them say what they wish.
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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LelleS
Jun 22 14, 1:26
What do you people closer too the KRG think of this?

@shwankamiran: Unofficial: Letter from PM #Maliki to Pres Barzani contains budgetary solutions.For 5 years Oil is for Kurds, thereafter 17% to go up to 30%

Any truth in it?
Nope. Even if it was anything from Iran or Maliki is a lie we ain't gonna fall for their crap again. We have all we need why make agreement on something you already have!? Let them say what they wish.
Alan Yes I understand, but if the offer was made? Would mean that Malaki is desperate and that You are closer too independent then ever.
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Yeah that's what it reads...
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Finally my city starts breathin again after it's oil been stolen by Iraq for 90 years

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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Jun 21 14, 2:17
The reality is that who ever buys our oil we will sell it to them, arabs Jews Europeans Asians you name...
The reality is only few countries are prepared to buy. The fact that Israel is prepared to buy and doesn't care about Baghdad's threats says enough :).
biji kurd u kurdistan !!
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Kurdistan Denies Selling Oil to Israel

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The Ministry of Natural Resources reported on Friday that a second tanker load of Kurdish oil has been safely delivered to buyers and two more vessels are being loaded at Ceyhan port.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Confederation — The Kurdish Ministry of Natural Resources has dismissed a report claiming that a Kurdish crude oil shipment was sent to Israel as “baseless and without evidence.”

A ministry official who asked not to be identified told Rudaw that the Kurdistan Confederation hasn’t “sold any oil directly or indirectly to Israel.”

Reuters news agency reported on Friday that the first cargo of oil exported by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) had arrived at the Israeli port of Ashkelon. It was reportedly being transported on the SCF Altai, which sailed from the Turkish port of Ceyhan.

The KRG’s decision to export crude oil via Turkey has caused a major row with Iraq’s central government, which claims Erbil is circumventing Baghdad by making oil deals independently and has threatened to sue any buyer. The KRG says the exports are legal because the revenue is being shared with the rest of Iraq, as mandated by the constitution.

The oil official said, “These media reports are aimed at increasing tensions between the Kurdistan Confederation and Iraq’s federal government without relying on any evidence or truth.”

Reuters said it was not able to confirm whether the KRG sold the oil directly to a buyer in Israel or to another party. It noted that cargoes often change hands multiple times before reaching their final destination. Like many other countries in the region, Iraq has an embargo against trade with Israel.

The Ministry of Natural Resources reported on Friday that a second tanker load of Kurdish oil has been safely delivered to buyers and two more vessels are being loaded at Ceyhan port.

http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/210620143
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Of course they deny it. But ship-tracking software doesn't lie haha

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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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South Kurdistan gets around $100 million for first major oil export as third oil tanker

June 23, 2014

ERBIL-Hewlêr, Kurdistan Confederation 'KRG',— Turkish Energy Minister, Taner Yildiz said that "The third tanker loaded with oil from the Kurdistan Confederation left the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean sea and a fourth tanker is being loaded."

Yildiz said in a press statement Monday "The Kurdistan oil's sales are being deposited to a Turkish government bank."

Yildiz explained, "Turkey does not know who bought the oil, but it is believed markets in the Mediterranean Sea".

The semiautonomous Kurdistan Confederation of KRG received close to $100 million for the first million barrels of oil it piped to Turkey and shipped to international markets, an official said Monday, marking a critical step in Kurdish efforts to become independent crude exporters.

Buyers of oil from the Kurdistan Regional Government, or KRG, deposited $93 million of the $97 million owed on the first tanker of crude at Turkiye Halk Bankasi AS HALKB.IS +1.90% , Turkey's state-owned lender known as Halkbank, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said Monday in Ankara. The payments came in phases and both Baghdad and Kurdish authorities have been notified about their receipt, Mr. Yildiz said.

The first deposit for KRG oil exports comes as the regional authorities in Erbil face a significant budget squeeze. Iraq's central government started cutting off payments to the KRG in January amid a dispute over the Kurds' contested right to export oil independently of Baghdad. Iraq has also threatened legal action against KRG crude buyers, and filed for arbitration against Turkey.

Kurdish officials have pledged to stick by Iraq's revenue-sharing framework, which sees Erbil take 17% of the proceeds from all national oil sales. But successful deposits for their oil exports would give more leverage to the KRG as it seeks greater economic independence, and could pave the way for Kurds to access international loans to fund their budget.

"When we approach international finance houses, they look to whether we can export and sell the oil. Now that we have done that, it is easier to get loans," KRG spokesman Safeen Dizayee said Monday in an interview. "There are serious negotiations, and I think we will get a deal soon."

The Kurdish push for more economic autonomy and security comes amid a Sunni insurgency in recent weeks that has plunged Iraq into chaos. Starting an assault toward Baghdad, militants attached to the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham, or ISIS, have expanded their territory to include Iraq's second biggest city, Mosul, and sieged the country's largest oil refinery, disrupting production.

As Iraqi security forces disintegrated amid ISIS advances, the KRG's armed forces, the Peshmerga, stepped in to secure the disputed oil-producing city of Kirkuk, and other regions with Kurdish populations. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Baghdad on Monday to meet with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and Washington's top diplomat is also expected to meet with Sunni and Kurdish leaders to seek a solution to the gravest threat to Iraqi unity since the last U.S. troops left the country in December 2011.

Meanwhile, Kurdish authorities have continued floating tankers carrying their crude from Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan uninterrupted. Three tankers have sailed since May 22, and Mr. Yildiz said a fourth tanker started loading Sunday night. While the first tanker is still idling off Morocco to discharge its load, the second cargo was delivered over the weekend to the Israeli port of Ashkelon, managed by Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Co.

"The oil may have been delivered to Israel, but sold to someone else. as Turkey, we're not interested in that part," Mr. Yildiz said, adding that Turkey earns about $1 per barrel of exported Kurdish oil.

Officials in Erbil haven't provided details of who is buying their crude.

"No oil company, nor any dealers would be engaged in Turkey and the KRG [based] on any illicit agreement. Everything has been done as per international agreements, but at this point in time some of those buyers don't want to disclose their identity, which we respect," Mr. Dizayee said.

The KRG still transports via pipeline an average 120,000 barrels of oil a day to Turkey, officials said. About two million barrels of Kurdish oil are stored in Ceyhan. Each tanker from the Mediterranean port was loaded with one million barrels of crude. South Kurdistan needs to export about 400,000 barrels a day for its budget to break even, Mr. Dizayee said.

http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2014/6/state8127.htm
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Third tanker loaded with oil from Kurdistan leave to the port of Ceyhan

Shafaq News / Turkish Energy Minister , Taner Yildiz said on Monday that a third tanker loaded with oil has left Kurdistan Confederation to the Turkish port of Ceyhan

on the Mediterranean as a fourth tanker is being loaded.

Yildiz said in a statement reported by Reuters , seen by "Shafaq News" that” sales revenue of Kurdistan oil is being transformed to Halk Turkish government Bank.

He added that 93 million dollars has been deposit in the bank from the price of the first shipment that was loaded last month.

Yildiz told reporters that Turkey does not know the procuring entity, but believes it will be sold to markets in the Mediterranean region.

Kurdistan government said in a statement on its website on Saturday that it is proud of this important accomplishment despite what it called as intimidation and interference by Baghdad over three weeks against the owners of the tanker, traders and involved buyers.

The sale of Kurdistan oil shipments transported via the independent pipeline is vital to the government of Kurdistan under its quest for more financial independence from Baghdad and provides financial liquidity after Baghdad cut its share of the federal financial budget.

However, the new export channel to Turkey, which aims to avoid Federal pipeline of Baghdad sparked a bitter dispute, unlike the sale of oil rights between the central government and the Kurds.

Kurdistan pipeline pumps currently about 120 thousand barrels per day to the port of Ceyhan. The region aims to export 400 thousand barrels per day by the end of the year.

http://english.shafaaq.com/index.php/business/10274-third-tanker-loaded-with-oil-from-kurdistan-leave-to-the-port-of-ceyhan
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsfjPC9gL_Q
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Kurdish oil revenue money is going to this bank. There's also some kind of link between this bank and Persian or Azerbaijan (Baku) governments:

" Halkbank was a link in the chain to finance Iranian petroleum interests in the wake of U.S.-led nuclear sanctions. In March 2012 Iran was stopped from using the international money transfer system SWIFT. Halkbank seems, between March 2012 and July 2013 while the UN sanctions regime was in place prior to the November 2013 P5+1 agreement, to have purchased some $13bn worth of gold on the open market. The sanctions prevented Iran from being paid in dollars or euros, but gold was never mentioned in the sanctions regime, and therefore this loophole allowed gold to be used to fund the purchase of Iranian petroleum products. Halkbank allowed the middlemen of Iran to buy gold with their Turkish lira, and that gold found its way back to Iranian coffers

Iranian Ambassador to Turkey Ali Reza Bikdeli recently praised Halkbank for its "smart management decisions in recent years [that] have played an important role in Iranian-Turkish relations." Halkbank stated that there were no sanctions against trading precious metals with Iran until 1 July 2013. Halkbank also had Indian accounts that in 2013 traded with Iran: "India now owes Iran $5.3 billion in oil debt. India is planning to pay Iran $1 billion per month -- that is $12 billion annually -- also through Halkbank."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halk_Bankas%C4%B1
Edited by the SUN child, Jun 25 14, 6:56.
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Kurdish (Sorani) report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJkJPR_S3Vw
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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South Kurdistan sells second piped oil cargo, for $106 mln

Tue Jun 24, 2014 4:56pm GMT

LONDON, June 24 (Reuters) - South Kurdistan has sold a second cargo of about 1 million barrels of crude oil delivered via its new pipeline for $106 million, a spokesman for the regional government said, a steep discount compared to regional alternative sour grades.

The oil was sold at about a $13 per barrel discount when taking the current level of benchmark dated Brent, whereas Urals has been at a discount of $1.50 to $3/barrel this month.

The spokesman added the money had been deposited in Turkey's Halkbank.

The grade is sourer than Urals, meaning it has a higher sulphur content, which makes it cheaper to buy as a refiner will have to spend to remove the sulphur.

The risk associated in buying Kurdistan's first pipeline shipments have also likely weighed on the price. Most refineries and traders have been reluctant to get involved in the trade that Iraq's central government calls "smuggling".

Baghdad has opened arbitration against Turkey for allowing the sales and has threatened to pursue buyers.

The first tanker of piped crude is still waiting off Morocco after local authorities asked it to leave its waters, while a second discharged at Israel's Ashkelon port last week.

A quality assessment by a shipping agent of the oil in May, pegged the grade at around 31.3 degrees API with a sulphur content of around 2.7 percent.

The grade is a mix of Kurdistan's Tawke and Taq Taq grades and is expected to change over time as the first loadings from storage were mixed with some residue of Iraq's Kirkuk grade.

The crude is loaded onto tankers at the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan in Turkey.

(Reporting by David Sheppard in Hewlêr and Julia Payne in London, editing by David Evans)
http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL6N0P55AT20140624
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Now controlled by Kurds, Kirkuk oil fields are up for grabs

DIBIS, KIRKUK PROVINCE // Vast oil reserves in KRG could be swallowed into the autonomous Kurdistan Confederation if the country’s security situation continues to deteriorate.

Kurdish forces now call the shots at the labyrinth of oil installations in the disputed Kirkuk province that they stepped in to protect when the Iraqi military disintegrated after the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) captured Mosul city on June 10.

With ISIL continuing to take more territory in Iraq’s predominantly Sunni areas, the government in Baghdad appears increasingly unable to reassert authority over Kirkuk and its petroleum facilities.

Even if it could, the Kurds running the area appear unlikely to allow such a return, raising the prospect that the current conflict may lead to wider squabbles over who reaps Iraq’s vast oil riches.

Kirkuk’s Kurdish governor, Najmaldin Karim, said the area, which is claimed by the majority Kurds as well as Arabs and Turkmen, could become part of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) if the extremists’ onslaught pushes the country closer to sectarian war.

“I think the priority for the Iraqi army, if it reforms itself, is really not in this area. This area is safe,” Mr Karim told The National in his Kirkuk office.

“We still have a lot of contacts with Baghdad, but they have a lot of other issues to worry about. We’re doing fine here.”

The Iraqi oil ministry’s North Oil Company operated the five main oilfields in Kirkuk, which produced more than 500,000 barrels of oil a day before the ISIL attack, a former official in the company said.

The revenues went to the central government, led by prime minister Nouri Al Maliki, and were then divided up as part of the budget dispersals for provinces such as Kirkuk and the KRG.

But North Oil’s production has almost halted because of the fighting. “There’s really nothing coming out right now,” the company official said.

Militant attacks over the past year had halted the daily flow of 350,000 barrels through the 970-kilometre Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, which runs north to the Turkish port.

The supply of another 150,000 barrels daily through a pipeline to the Baiji refinery, about 90km west of Kirkuk, also halted last week because of ISIL attacks on the facility.

Baiji is Iraq’s largest refinery and supplied about seven million litres of petrol a day for the local market. Since it stopped operating there have been major petrol shortages in northern areas such as Kirkuk.

The former North Oil official, who retired recently after decades with the company, expressed doubts about Baghdad’s continued control over Kirkuk’s oil.

“It’s unclear at the moment who will run things when the situation calms,” the official said.

Kurdish authorities have been careful not to make overt attempts to take over management of Kirkuk’s oil, including the Kirkuk Field that holds nearly 10 billion barrels of proven reserves. That would enrage Baghdad and raise the risk of legal repercussions because of contracts in Kirkuk between the central government and local and foreign companies, including BP.

“While anything is possible in the current uncertain environment in Iraq, such a move will have major legal and political consequences,” said Carole Nakhle, an energy economist and non-resident scholar at the Beirut-based Carnegie Middle East Center.

Analysts say the ISIL campaign will affect Iraqi oil production and, in turn, global supplies.

Iraq is the world’s seventh-largest oil producer and holds the world’s fifth-largest proven reserves, which range between 141 billion and 150 billion barrels, according to Columbia University’s Center for Global Energy Policy.

The country has increased output substantially in recent years – accounting for 4 per cent of global production – after decades of neglect, international sanctions against former dictator Saddam Hussein and two wars with the United States.

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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Israel is going to be a good ally of South-Kurdistan.
They are already helping us towards independence. With them buying oil, West will have no/less opposition towards independent Kurdish state, and with them buying oil = secure source of revenue + trade for weapons? :)
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KRG explored 2 million barrels of oil to Israel

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South Kurdistan confederation, which exports 120,000 barrels of oil a day, has already sent 2 million barrels of oil to Israel via Ceyhan, Debka website said in a report.

The website added most of this shipment is due to arrive in Ashkelon and Eilat in the coming days.

Oil industry insiders believe that Erbil pays Turkey and Israel a dollar each for every barrel that passes through their territory.

Western military sources say Israel and Turkey navies have boosted their cooperation in the eastern Mediterranean to secure the channel, the tankers, and their precious cargo.

The Trans-Israel Pipeline from Ashkelon to Eilat is the real target of the increased rocket fire on Ashkelon and nearby coastal areas, military sources told the website.

http://kurdpress.com/En/Mobile/Detail.aspx?Id=7649
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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KRG explored 2 million barrels of oil to Israel

South Kurdistan confederation, which exports 120,000 barrels of oil a day, has already sent 2 million barrels of oil to Israel via Ceyhan, Debka website said in a report.

The website added most of this shipment is due to arrive in Ashkelon and Eilat in the coming days.

Oil industry insiders believe that Erbil pays Turkey and Israel a dollar each for every barrel that passes through their territory.

Western military sources say Israel and Turkey navies have boosted their cooperation in the eastern Mediterranean to secure the channel, the tankers, and their precious cargo.

The Trans-Israel Pipeline from Ashkelon to Eilat is the real target of the increased rocket fire on Ashkelon and nearby coastal areas, military sources told the website.

http://kurdpress.com/En/Mobile/Detail.aspx?Id=7649
Good.

If 2 or 3 dollars per barrel secures our independence and gains use allies, then let it be.
How much is a barrel these days 110 dollars? We'll probably make 100 of it after those 2 dollars (still not confirmed though), transportation cost, pay to oil companies etc. ?
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