Disruptions to U.S. oil production from Hurricane Nate may support a risk-fueled rally in oil prices Tuesday, but concerns about global outages may be fading. Crude oil prices soared during the Monday session as tensions boiled over in the northern provinces of Iraq. Iraqi and Kurdish forces are sparring over control of the so-called disputed territories in the north and by Tuesday , the Iraqi military had taken the oil fields in Kirkuk. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said in a market report published before fighting intensified that geopolitical tensions over the September referendum for independence in the Kurdish north had already added a risk premium to the price of oil. Citing sources close to an […]