Iraq blacklists tankers involved in shipping Kurdish crude
LONDON - Iraqi state oil firm SOMO has blacklisted three tankers involved in shipping crude from Kurdistan, stepping up pressure on the semi-autonomous region amid tense talks on sharing oil revenue.
Kurdistan has been exporting crude independently via Turkey since mid-2015 after saying Baghdad had failed to respect an oil revenue-sharing deal and transfer enough money to Erbil.
Baghdad, which exports most of its oil from the Gulf, has said Erbil was not exporting enough crude under the deal.
