The series of attacks against oil fields in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) last week underlines OilPrice.com’s long-stated view that the dispute between this Region and the Federal Government of Iraq (FGI) is not really to do with oil at all – it is all about sovereignty. The FGI in Baghdad does not want the KRI in Erbil to have any independence from it, and the KRI wants to have more. The FGI’s stance aligns perfectly with that of its key sponsors China and Russia. This was relayed to OilPrice.com some time…
