Three-day pipeline outage halts Kurdistan’s exports
The severe disruption highlights the extent to which the KRG's oil sector and economy are vulnerable to Ankara’s fight with Kurds in Syria and Turkey.
The final welded section of the KRG's Khurmala - Feyshkabour pipeline lies by trenching immediately south of oil storage tanks at DNO International's pumping station, 3km from the Turkey border, in November 2013. (PATRICK OSGOOD/Iraq Oil Report)
ERBIL - Oil exports from northern Iraq have been offline for three days due to pipeline outages in southeast Turkey, the most severe disruption since July.
"Crude oil export from the Kurdistan Region to Ceyhan has been interrupted since Tuesday, 16th February following attacks on the export pipeline near Urfa in Turkey," the KRG’s Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) confirmed in a statement Thursday.
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