Abdul Ghani confirms resuming production and export from Kurdistan's fields

Economy

12-11-2023, 10:28

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INA- Baghdad

Oil Minister Hayyan Abdul Ghani said on Sunday keenness to resume production and export from Kurdistan's fields.

A statement by the Ministry of Oil received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA) said that "Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs and Oil Minister Hayyan Abdul Ghani, arrived in the Kurdistan region, and was received by the Minister of Natural Resources in the region Kamal Mohammed Saleh and a number of officials."

Abdul Ghani said that "the visit comes as a continuation of the talks that took place in Baghdad to discuss the resumption of production operations and export of oil from the region's fields because of the importance of this in providing the federal budget with financial revenues."

Abdul Ghani pointed to "the government's keenness to find appropriate mechanisms to resume production and export of oil from the region's fields, stressing that he will meet with a number of officials in the region."