NOC oil heading to market via Kurdistan
Around 150,000 bpd from Kirkuk is being pumped to Turkey for the first time in 10 months.
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)
KIRKUK - Iraq's federal North Oil Company (NOC) has begun exporting Kirkuk crude for the first time since militants led by the so-called Islamic State (IS) bombed the pipeline to Turkey nearly a year ago.
The fields that still remain under the control of the state-run North Oil Company (NOC) – which since June has lost smaller assets to the IS group and larger fields to Kurdish appropriation – are sending 150,000 barrels per day (bpd) north via a pipeline network controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
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