Iraq’s Oil Ministry said it is “exceptionally dismayed” by the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) announcement of independent crude sales and has accused Turkey of breaching treaty obligations by collaborating with the KRG to commandeer a leg of the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline (ITP).The “Iraqi Federal Ministry of Oil, represented by SOMO [the State Oil Marketing Organization], is the exclusive sole official body authorized to enter into contracts for the export of hydrocarbon resource.