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Ankara to renew Iraqi Kurdistan oil
pipeline deal 17.3.2010
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March
17, 2010
ANKARA,
— Turkish energy officials said during an energy
conference in Ankara that a contract for an oil
pipeline from the Kurdistan region of Iraq would be
renewed "soon."
Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said transport
links with neighboring countries "have important
impacts on our energy policies," Turkish daily
Today's Zaman quoted him as saying.
Turkey aims to position itself as a regional energy
hub. The planned European gas pipeline Nabucco would
cross its territory,www.ekurd.netwhile
the Russian-backed South Stream gas pipeline would
cross through Turkish territorial waters in the
Black Sea. |
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Turkey also hosts a leg of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
oil pipeline, one of the longest in the world.
Yildiz said part Ankara's energy policy included
commitments to Iraq.
"The agreement about Kirkuk-Yumurtalik raw oil
pipeline expired in March," he said. "We will sign a
15-20-year agreement with Iraq soon to renew the
deal."
The Kirkuk-Yumurtalik oil pipeline was shut down
briefly in December when militants attacked the
link.
The oil pipeline carries oil from the northern Iraqi
city of Kirkuk to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the
Mediterranean Sea.
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