Iraqi and Kurdish officials are still trying to work out their differences. Representatives from Iraq's oil ministry and State Organization for Marketing of Oil (SOMO) met with members of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) on Jan. 15 in its capital, Arbil, to discuss a deal over oil exports. Though the meeting suggests that the two sides are inching closer to common ground, several points of contention remain between the Iraqi and Kurdish governments. According to the secretary of the KRG Council of Ministers, the Jan. 15 meeting's main purpose was to hash out an arrangement in which SOMO would market and export oil produced in Iraqi Kurdistan. The KRG, in return, would receive fuel and a portion of Iraq's federal budget. Just how much of the budget Arbil would get is still up for debate, however.