SOMO Confirms Readiness to Resume Oil Exports from Kurdistan Region
“We have finalized contracts with oil companies and are now fully prepared to export oil from the Kurdistan Region,” Faiq said. “We are waiting to receive the quantities that the Kurdistan Region will deliver.”
ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – Ali Nizar Faiq, General Director of the State Organization for Marketing of Oil (SOMO), announced on Friday that the company has completed all preparations to resume oil exports from the Kurdistan Region.
“We have finalized contracts with oil companies and are now fully prepared to export oil from the Kurdistan Region,” Faiq said. “We are waiting to receive the quantities that the Kurdistan Region will deliver.”
In a separate statement, SOMO rejected claims of oil mixing or smuggling through Iraqi ports, stressing that no credible evidence supports such allegations.
“The propaganda about oil smuggling to neighboring countries is shameful and baseless,” the statement read. “No such activity is taking place in Iraqi ports or regional waters.”
SOMO further emphasized that no international organization has provided evidence of smuggling, stating that the accusations “are unfounded and lack any scientific basis.”
