"..they (the US) will make sure they have access to the oil in Kurdistan." - Dianavan

Care to let us in on how exactly?

Or do you mean that, if required, the US will buy oil from the Kurdish region of Iraq in exactly the same manner as anyone else paying market price for it?

The US certainly do not own it (Kurdish Oil), nor can they ever own the natural resources of any other sovereign state. Holding a licence to extract and operate an oilfield means exactly that, ownership of the resource remains national. The licence can be revoked at any time.

No US company holds any licence to extract oil from any oilfield in the Kurdish area of Iraq.