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Rowena Edwards and Moataz Mohamed
U.S. oilfield services companies Schlumberger, Baker Hughes and Halliburton comply with federal Supreme Court rulings and withdraw from Iraq's Kurdistan region I promised that. The Ministry of Petroleum said in Baghdad.
The two companies have confirmed that they will not start a new project in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, where they are in the process of concluding existing bids and contracts, a ministry statement said.
"Baker Hughes has promised to support Iraq's energy demand for decades and wants to continue to support it in accordance with local laws and regulations," Baker Hughes said. A spokeswoman said.
Halliburton and Schlumberger did not immediately respond to the request for comment.
The Ministry of Petroleum statement spans months between Elville and Baghdad after a February federal court ruling that the legal base of the oil and gas sector in the Kurdish region was unconstitutional. It was after the conflict occurred.
The Ministry of Petroleum in Baghdad has since made new attempts to carry out the ruling, including summoning seven companies operating there to the postponed commercial court.
The ministry will also terminate or blacklist existing contracts or projects in the oil sector of the Kurdistan Local Government (KRG) to major contractors and subcontractors in early June. Written to give 3 months to face. June.
KRG has repeatedly rejected federal court decisions.
(Reported by Rowena Edwards in London and Moataz Mohamed in Cairo, edited by David Goodman)
