Baghdad reviews options to export oil north through Turkey

An oil company working in the north of Iraq is called on to overhaul an export pipeline that runs from Kirkuk to a Turkish port, the government in Baghdad said.


A spokesman for the Iraqi Oil Ministry, Asim Jihad, said Tuesday the ministry called on the North Oil Co. to "speed up the implementation of the project to rehabilitate the oil pipeline network of crude oil after the victories achieved by our security forces."

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in late August that Nineveh province and its capital, Mosul, were liberated from the Islamic State, also known as ISIL, ISIS, and Daesh. That led the federal government to start a reconstruction campaign in the region after years of battling the terrorist threat.

The Oil Ministry wants the North Oil Co. to work on repairs on the artery running from oil fields in Kirkuk in northern Iraq to the Turkish port at Ceyhan on the Mediterranean Sea. That line is different from the one used by companies operating in the Kurdish region to send oil north.

Parts of the region are considered disputed territories with the semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government.
  [upi.com]
 10/10/17