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Turkey’s Energy Minister Taner Yıldız speaks during a news conference in Ankara January 2, 2014. (Reuters/Umit Bektas)
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In this December 13, 2009 file photo, Iraqi laborers work at the Rumaila oil refinery, near the city of Basra. (AP Photo/Nabil Al-Jurani)
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Iraq says China seeking 70 percent more crude in 2014
Daegu, Reuters—Iraq said China is seeking to increase purchases of its crude by more than two-thirds next year, stepping up the rivalry between Baghdad and top exporter Saudi Arabia for a bigger slice of the growing Asian market. Rapid increases in Iraq’s oil...Caption:
Nechervan Barzani, prime minister of Iraq’s Kurdish provinces (KRG)
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