KRG lifts crude from Kirkuk field to Kurdistan refinery
Region makes unilateral move to control up to 200,000 bpd of oil without federal or provincial approval.
A view of the Kalak refinery, outside of Erbil, as it undergoes an expansion on July 14, 2014. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
ERBIL - The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has started lifting large volumes of crude from a Kirkuk oil field, a bold step likely to exacerbate their dispute with the Kirkuk provincial administration and the government in Baghdad about who rightfully controls Iraq’s oil exports.
Production stations at the Avana dome, one of three comprising the massive Kirkuk field, are “producing oil which is pumped to southern Bai Hassan station and then to Sarlo station for treatment. … Then it is pumped to Avana station and then to KRG's Khurmala," said a senior official from Iraq’s North Oil Company (NOC).
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