Leading oil companies are moving closer to a confrontation with the Iraq government over deals in the semi-autonomous northern Kurdistan region that threaten to undermine Baghdad’s plans to ramp up crude exports in the south.
Chevron, Total and Gazprom have followed ExxonMobil’s entry into Kurdistan last year, moves which some analysts think are likely to provoke retaliation from the administration of Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister.
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