US Urges Iraq Oil Export Restart Via Turkey Amid Kurdish Dispute

The US is pushing Iraq and Turkey to restart exports of crude oil and resolve a dispute with Kurdish authorities that led to the disruption and has driven up global prices.

About 400,000 barrels a day of exports via the Turkish port of Ceyhan have been halted in recent days because of the standoff between Iraq, the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government and Turkey.

“Disruptions to that global energy supply doesn’t serve anyone’s interests,” US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters in Washington on Tuesday.

An International Chamber of Commerce rulinglast week backed Baghdad’s long-standing argument that ...