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The Iraqi Oil Minister renewed a contract with Turkey to transport crude oil through the Turkish port of Ceyhan for 15 years, at volumes of more than one million barrels per day (bpd). The deal is expected to strengthen economic relations between Baghdad and Ankara. AKnews reports that Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said in Baghdad […]
An initial agreement between Iraq and Syria to build a pipeline to the Mediterranean envisions one crude pipeline with a capacity of 1.5 million barrels per day and another with a capacity of 1.25m bpd, an Iraqi government spokesman said yesterday. Ali Al Dabbagh said that the larger of the two pipelines would carry heavier […]
Syria's Oil Minister Sufian Alao [Sufian Allaw] has met representatives of Chinese companies in Beijing to discuss the long-delayed refinery project that could help save Syria billions of dollars in fuel imports. The refinery could eventually take oil from Iraq, if political differences between Syria and Iraq that have delayed plans to re-activate an oil […]
Turkey's Energy and Natural Resources Minister, Taner Yıldız, has said Turkey will renew the agreement with Iraq for the Kirkuk-Yumurtalık crude oil pipeline on Sept. 19. The flow of oil through the pipeline was severely affected by the seven-year US occupation of Iraq. The very limited flow has continued to decrease over the last few […]
The flow of crude oil from northern Iraq's Kirkuk oilfields has again been interrupted, according to a report from Dow Jones. Shipping agents report a technical fault since Sunday on the Turkish part of the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline. This is the third time the flow has been suspended this month, sometimes due to technical faults and […]
A bomb attack stopped the export of oil through the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline on Tuesday, and killed two people and wounded a third after their vehicles caught fire on a road that runs alongside the link. Reuters, citing a spokeswoman for Botas, Turkey's state-run pipeline operator, reported on Wednesday evening that "the fire continues, and the […]
Further to our report yesterday on the attack on the Kirkuk-Ceyhan Pipeline, Israel National News reports that oil started to flow again on Monday. A bomb, reportedly planted by Kurdish resistance fighters, had temporarily halted pumping on the Kirkuk to Ceyhan pipeline at the weekend. The bombing by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) added a […]
Turkish security sources said the flow of oil on Iraq's pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan was still halted on Sunday night after a bomb blast blamed on suspected Kurdish separatist rebels the previous evening, according to a report from Reuters. AFP reports that a blast late Saturday ripped through a section of the […]
"We resumed pumping to Ceyhan port on Friday with a test flow rate between 300,000 to 350,000 bpd and flow will be back to normal rates within 24 hours," the official told Reuters.
The pumping of Iraq's Kirkuk crude through Turkey to the Mediterranean terminal of Ceyhan is expected to resume Thursday
Iraqi oil exports through the pipeline to Turkey have been stopped due to technical malfunctions on the Iraqi side.
“The sides discussed the possibility of ferrying Iraqi crude to Syria through the present pipeline and exporting it via Baniyas terminal,” according to a statement by the official Syrian news agency, SANA.
