More Drone Strikes on Iraqi Kurdistan Oilfields Halt Up to 200,000 Bpd
A now three-day series of drone attacks on Iraqi Kurdistan’s oilfields, leading to a shut-in of 150,000 bpd and ratcheting up already-inflamed tensions between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil and the Iraqi federal government in Baghdad. Late on Wednesday, Chinese media reported another drone attack on a Dohuk province oilfield connected to U.S. operator Hunt Oil. According to Xinhua and China Daily Asia, the KRG Ministry of Natural Resources confirmed the latest attack occurred at 7:10 pm local time (1610 GMT). That…