Reuters quoted an Iraqi oil official as saying that Baghdad halted crude oil exports from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Kirkuk fields after winning an arbitration case against Turkey last Thursday.
Reuters said a document showed shipping officials in Turkey had told their Iraqi counterparts that no ship would be allowed to load crude cargoes from the Kurdistan region without Iraqi government approval.
Another document shows that Turkey stopped – after the verdict – the pumping of Iraqi crude oil through the pipeline leading to the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
The case filed by Iraq before the ICC Arbitration Tribunal in Paris dates back to 2014.
Baghdad said at the time that Turkey had violated a joint agreement by allowing the KRG to export oil via pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
Before it was halted, Iraq pumped up to 450 barrels per day through the pipeline, of which 370,<> barrels of oil were extracted in the region and the rest was from federal government oil.
The ruling covers the period from 2014 to 2018, while another case is pending for the period after 2018, and is expected to be sentenced in two years.