Crude oil flows from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq (KRI) through the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline (ITP from Kirkuk to Ceyhan resumed on Saturday (27 September) for the first time since 25 March 2023. This followed agreements between the various interested parties, comprised of the Iraq Kurdistan regional government (the KRG), the foreign oil and gas firms operating in the KRI, the Federal Government of Iraq (FGI), Turkey, and the U.S. This latter entrant into the two-and-a-half-year fray is the key reason for the sudden lack of objections…