Financial Times | Kurdish protest disrupts northern Iraqi oil flows Financial Times Crude oil flows from the Kirkuk fields in northern Iraq were briefly disrupted on Thursday after a Kurdish faction seized a pumping facility in protest at the policies of Baghdad and Erbil, adding a new threat to Iraq's attempts to comply with Opec's ... Iraqi Kirkuk Oil Exports at Risk as Kurds Seize Pump Station After Brief Interruption, Oil Begins To Flow From Kirkuk UPDATE: Kurdish forces enter North Oil Company in Kirkuk |