MESOP LATEST : KRG takes Kirkuk, Bai Hassan fields
By Kamaran al-Najar, Ben Lando and Staff of Iraq Oil Report – Published Friday, July 11th, 2014 – The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has dispatched its armed forces and civilian staff to take over nearly the entire North Oil Company (NOC) early Friday, telling workers they are now in charge of the Kirkuk, Bai Hassan and other fields with nearly 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) of production capacity.The mobilization of Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers and civilian oil engineers comes after the Oil Ministry demanded NOC workers dismantle the valves of a KRG-installed pipeline connecting KRG-c… http://www.iraqoilreport.com/?p=12676