Service of Iraq and the Kurdistan Region - The Prime Minister of Iraq, in a meeting with a delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government and representatives of oil companies, issued an order to resume the activities of foreign companies in the region's oil fields. At the same time, political sources in Baghdad say that the Iraqi government has conditioned the payment of regional employees' salaries to the resumption of Kurdistan's oil exports.
World Service - According to the Oil Price report, Iraq plans to increase the export of crude oil through the Kurdistan Region - Turkey's Ceyhan port to 770,000 barrels per day in response to the disruption in oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz.
