WASHINGTON — Iraq’s Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi, speaking to Al-Monitor during a visit to the United States to meet with US government officials and energy executives, addressed the challenges facing his country’s oil sector, including disputes between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil over production and revenue sharing.
Luaibi commented on the disputed areas, noting that the KRG takes two-thirds of the total oil produced in Kirkuk, which he estimated at around 500,000 barrels daily.