Kurdistan cuts oil exports

Kurdistan Regional Government decided to reduce the proportion of oil because the failure of the Iraqi government to pay the wages of the oil foreign companies operating in the region. Ali Hussain Balou, the advisor in the Ministry of Natural Resources in the provincial government, said in a press statement that it was supposed that the Iraqi government is to pay $ 350 million as a second pay of the expense of the oil foreign companies in 09/10/2012, but it did not pay so far, forcing the provincial government to reduce the export of oil. According to a previous agreement between Baghdad and the region, in September 2012, the province exported 175 thousand barrels of oil a day and a month later to increase this number to 200 thousand and is to reach 250 thousand barrels per day in 2013.