Fight brewing over who has the rights to sign oil contracts for Iraq 's Kurdish region . Gulf Keystone signed a deal with the Kurds regional government that Iraq says is illegal . Gulf Keystone says it is working an oil field of $ 100 billion barrels -- one of the largest oil fields covered in this part of the world . Entire villages were razed to the ground . As Kurdish insist they should sign the oil contracts , they also remember Saddam Hussein attempts to wipe out their communities .
Fight brewing over who has the rights to sign oil contracts for Iraq 's Kurdish region . Gulf Keystone signed a deal with the Kurds regional government that Iraq says is illegal . Gulf Keystone says it is working an oil field of $ 100 billion barrels -- one of the largest oil fields covered in this part of the world . As Kurdish insist they should sign the oil contracts , they also remember Saddam Hussein attempts to wipe out their communities .