Norway's DNO is not exporting any oil from its Tawke oil field in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdistan region right now, Executive Chairman Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani said Tuesday during a teleconference to discuss the company's first-quarter results. A payments dispute with Baghdad prompted the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to stop supplying oil for export through Iraq's pipeline to Turkey in December. The absence of an export outlet saw DNO's first-quarter gross output from Tawke fall to some 18,000 barrels per day this year from 51,000 b/d in 2012, as the firm pushed also to take a harder line on pricing for its domestic sales.
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