Kurdistan Region Reaffirms Commitment to Oil Export Deal, 4 Million Barrels Stored in Ceyhan

Peregraf– The Kurdistan Region’s Acting Minister of Natural Resources, Kamal Mohammed, has reiterated the Region’s commitment to the trilateral agreement on oil re-export, confirming that four million barrels of Kurdistan oil have already been stored and marketed at Turkey’s Ceyhan port.

In a meeting with Yan Brayem, the French Consul General in the Kurdistan Region, Mohammed underlined the “good relations and coordination” between the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Ministry of Natural Resources and Iraq’s Ministry of Oil.

The oil exports from Kurdistan Region resumed via pipeline on September 27, 2025, after a suspension of nearly two and a half years. Under the deal, oil from the Kurdistan Region is sent daily through the KRG’s pipeline to Faysh Khabur border, where it is transferred into the Iraq–Turkey pipeline for shipment to Ceyhan.

Hamdi Shingali, Deputy General Manager of Iraq’s state-owned SOMO company, confirmed that the agreement on re-exporting the Kurdistan Region’s oil runs until December 31, 2025. “After that, it will be renewed by agreement of the three parties—the Kurdistan Regional Government, the Federal Government, and the oil companies—and the export process will not stop,” he said.

However, despite the return of oil exports, the issue of public sector salaries in the Kurdistan Region remains unresolved. While employees in Iraq have already received their October salaries, KRG employees are still waiting for their wages for August, delayed for more than two months.