On June 19, a Turkish energy team will speak with representatives from the Iraqi oil industry in Baghdad to discuss the restart of Iraq’s norBasim Mohammed, the deputy oil minister for upstream issues in Iraq, told Reuters on Thursday that a Turkish energy team will meet with Iraqi oil authorities in Baghdad on 19 June to discuss the resumed sale of oil from Iraq’s northern regions.

“We are prepared to pump 500,000 barrels per day once flow resumes,” said Basim Mohammed. “We have agreed that it is necessary to resume oil exports as soon as possible.”

Following an arbitration decision by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Turkey stopped Iraq’s 450,000 barrels per day (bpd) of northern exports through the Iraq-Turkey pipeline on March 25.