Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi arrives to attend a joint news conference with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the end of a meeting at Chigi Palace in Rome, Italy February 10, 2016. Iraq resumed pumping crude from the Kirkuk fields through a Kurdish-controlled pipeline to Turkey last week to extract gas associated with oil and avoid damage to reservoirs, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday. Oil flow had stopped in March because of a dispute between Abadi’s government and the Iraqi Kurdistan self-rule authorities over the control of the Kurdish oil resources. The flow resumed last week without an explanation from the government. “We have to produce oil in order to get gas,” Abadi told a news conference in Baghdad. “This is a very old oil field, if this field does not produce oil, it can be degraded.” He added: “So we were told to pump […]