(25. Oktober) In June, several news organizations reported that one tanker offloaded its Kurdish oil at an Israeli port. And Iraqi officials say there have been black-market buyers for Kurdish oil, a tanker truck at a time, in Turkey and Iran, among other places.

Several oil traders who closely watch tanker traffic noted that several of the tankers had occasionally turned off their radio transponders, suggesting that some may be secretly pumping their Kurdish oil onto other tankers — a common oil-smuggling practice. That possibility makes the oil even more difficult to track or quantify.