A New Oil Campaign in Iraq

... Baghdad government had already named Rosneft among the “illegally” operating companies, since it had signed its contract with the Kurdistan Region. Normalizing relations between Baghdad and Kurds would lead the parties to an arrangement concerning Rosneft’s presence in Iraq. Thus, the United States and Russia benefited from working relations being established between Erbil and Baghdad, which soon resumed deliveries of Kirkuk oil. Oil Companies Return to Iraq LUKOIL was the first to return to post-Saddam Iraq. The ...