Bold Kurdish move by Total

Defiant: Christophe de Margerie, chief executive of Total

REUTERS/SCANPIX

By Nassir Shirkhani London

 02 August 2012 22:59 GMT

France’s giant Total has become the latest major Western company to defy Baghdad and acquire upstream assets in Iraqi Kurdistan, giving another boost to the goal of Kurdish authorities to run their oil industry independently of the central government.

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