ANKARA, Turkey - Oil exports
from Kurdistan (Iraq's northern) fields have resumed more than four
months after insurgents sabotaged twin pipelines carrying Iraqi
crude to Turkey, oil officials said Tuesday.
Iraq began pumping oil on Saturday and it is currently pumping
around 21,000 barrels a day — just a trickle of the pipeline's full
capacity, said oil officials in Turkey who spoke on condition of
anonymity because they were not authorized to address the media.
Together the parallel pipelines can carry 1 million barrels a day.
Iraq briefly resumed pumping crude via the pipeline twice in
January. But the pipeline was soon sabotaged, halting shipments. |
Kurdistan oil fields in Kirkuk
Photo: AFP |
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