KRG building new pipeline and strategic options
Kurdistan has begun construction of a new export pipeline, which could eliminate its dependence on Baghdad-controlled infrastructure.
Larry Morrow, a construction supervisor for Norway's DNO Iraq, taking a call about work at the Tawke field as he overlooks the crude processing facility at DNO's Feyshkabour export center. On the far right is where Tawke field oil is piped in. To the left, pipelines running from a tanker offloading center where other KRG fields truck their crude to be exported. (BEN LANDO/Iraq Oil Report)
BAGHDAD - In the ongoing oil struggle between Iraq's central government and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, one of Baghdad's trump cards has been the control of export pipelines – but that could soon change.
Construction has begun on the first phase of a pipeline which, within two years, will send crude directly from Kurdistan's oil fields to a Kurdish-controlled oil depot station four kilometers from the Turkish border.
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