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Two refineries to be build in Kurdistan
region-Iraq
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March 27, 2007
BAGHDAD, -- Two 10,000-barrel-per-day
refineries will be built in Kurdistan region
(northern Iraq) in an attempt to ease bottlenecks
and address the fuel shortage.
The Iraqi newspaper Azzaman reports the Iraq Oil
Ministry signed contracts with state and private
Iraq firms to build the refineries. The projects,
worth $60 million, will be located in Kurdistan
autonomous region in the city of Erbil and
Sulaimaniyah.
The north can produce about a third of Iraq's oil,
but faces problems exporting it and the refineries
that are in operation operate at capacity.
Electricity is unreliable, causing work stoppages,
and demand is high. |
Kurdistan Oil |
The country as a whole faces shortages of crude
products such as fuels for transportation, cooking
and heating. Officials in Kurdistan, which has been
relatively autonomous since 1992, have said Baghdad
is not doing enough to deal with its fuel crisis.
The ministry did not set a timeline for building the
refineries
UPI
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