Kurdish forces seize oil wells from Iraqi control - The Jerusalem Post

Forces from the regional Kurdish government have taken control of some oil wells in northern Kirkuk, Iraq's state-run North Oil Company said in a statement on Saturday, but the Kurdish government denied this.

It said the forces arrived with a technical team from the Kurdish region and took over some of the oil wells in the Bai Hassan oilfield, which is controlled by the North Oil Company.

The statement did not say when the forces arrived and whether they were still there.

The Kurdistan Regional Government denied in a statement on its official website "all allegations and rumors which claim that the regional government had occupied and took over oilfields in Bai Hassan ... with the support of an armed force."