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The reopening of the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, which has been shut for a decade, would provide a rival route to a pipeline from the Kurdistan region that has been shut for a year as talks between ...
The Kirkuk–Ceyhan Oil Pipeline, also known as the Iraq–Turkey Crude Oil Pipeline, is a 600-mile-long (970 km) pipeline that runs from Kirkuk in Iraq to Ceyhan in Turkey. It is Iraq's largest crude oil export line.
By. Daniel J. Graeber of Oilprice.com The Turkish energy minister confirmed that oil was flowing again through the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline from northern Iraq following an attack on the transit network.
The first armed incident in Şırnak Province took place on 28 July when the Turkish Air Force bombed PKK fighters in the countryside. [13] The clashes in Şırnak began to escalate following a bomb explosion that damaged a section of the Kirkuk–Ceyhan pipeline within Şırnak Province on July 29 [14] and an ambush by the PKK on July 30 which killed 3 Turkish soldiers.
The Botaş Ceyhan Oil terminal is the end point of the Kirkuk–Ceyhan Oil Pipeline carrying crude oil from Iraq to Turkey. The Ceyhan Terminal has twelve oil storage tanks with each 135,000 m 3 (4,800,000 cu ft) capacity. At the arrival point of the pipeline, the refinery has one storage tank of 1,500 m 3 (53,000 cu ft
On 29 July, the oil pipeline between Kirkuk (Iraq) and Ceyhan (Turkey) was blown up in the east Turkey, in the Sirnak province [70] while in Hakkari, police quarters was under attack with heavy arms, including rocket launchers and long barrel rifles. [71]
"The explosion resulted in the death of 40-year-old Joshua Nichols of Lake Charles ... The pipelines have been blocked, and one remains on fire, burning the remaining natural gas in the line," the ...
The Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is a 1,768 kilometres (1,099 mi) long crude oil pipeline from the Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. It connects Baku , the capital of Azerbaijan and Ceyhan , a port on the south-eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey , via Tbilisi , the capital of Georgia .