Iraq's federal and Kurdish regional governments reached a deal with oil firms to resume crude exports via Turkey on Monday, two oil officials told Reuters. "We will on Tuesday start technical procedures to prepare pipeline operations, with oil flows expected to restart within 48 hours, an oil official with knowledge of the agreement told Reuters. The deal reached by an Iraqi oil ministry delegation and the semi-autonomous Kurdish regional government with oil firms comes as OPEC+ oil producing nations add more barrels to the market to gain market share. Wrangling between the Iraqi federal government, KRG and foreign oil firms over contract terms, arrears and other points of contention have kept that from happening. Reuters reported last week that Iraq, OPEC's second-largest producer, had given preliminary approval to a plan to restart the exports.