URGENT: Oil shipment from Kurdistan reaches Croatian port Omisalj

(IraqiNews.com) A Croatian daily newspaper, Jutarnji List, announced that “An oil tanker with 80,000 cubic metres of crude oil has arrived at the Omisalj terminal and it should be unloaded on Sunday”, the Jutarnji List said on its website, citing a source from the state-owned oil transport operator Janaf.

The source added that “the company has been notified four days before about the delivery of a shipment of oil from the Kurdistan region bought by the Hungarian Oil and Gas Public Limited Company, MOL, for its refinery,” adding that “all documents are intact and there is not controversial in this shipment.”

The federal government has warned the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq from oil smuggling operations, through the territory of the region and selling it without its consent, while the region insists on the sale of the oil so as to get the money from the sales to fill its needs.

The federal government filed a complaint to the relevant international courts against the government and the Ministry of Natural Resources in the government of the region, as well as the Turkish government, which facilitates the process of smuggling oil through its territory and sell it to European countries.