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The line's Iraqi part has been a principal sabotage target since 2003. [2] On 26 October 2009, the blast near Mosul halted oil supplies through the pipeline. [3] On 16 August 2013, at around 0100 GMT near the al-Shura area 60 km to the south of the city of Mosul a bomb attack damaged the pipeline. [4]
The Kirkuk-Mediterranean pipeline was a mixed 10/12-inch twin crude oil pipeline from the oil fields in Kirkuk, located in the former Ottoman vilayet of Mosul in northern Iraq, through Transjordan to Haifa in mandatory Palestine (now in the territory of Israel); and through Syria and a short stretch of what was to become the state of Lebanon to Tripoli.
Iraq has proposed building a new strategic line from Basra to the northern city of Kirkuk, with the line consisting of two additional crude oil pipelines. To the West: The Kirkuk–Baniyas pipeline (opened 1952) has been closed and the Iraqi portion reported unusable since the 2003 war in Iraq.
Baghdad is repairing a pipeline that could allow it to send 350,000 barrels per day (bpd) to Turkey by the end of the month, an Iraqi deputy oil minister said on Monday, a step likely to rile oil ...
A year after the closure of the Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline, the conduit that once handled about 0.5% of global oil supply is still stuck in limbo as legal and financial hurdles impede the resumption ...
During the 1920s the Naft Khana field was discovered and brought into commercial operation by the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. in lands covered by the 1901 d'Arcy concession, including some 20 miles of pipeline to a refinery at Khanaqin on the Iraq-Iran border northeast of Baghdad. Oil production from this first commercial field and first refinery in ...
On January 9, Iraqi Kurdistan started shipping oil through its crude pipeline to Turkey. While the oil shipped was a fraction of Iraq's total production, the implications are very large.
Along with its sister terminal, the Khawr al ‘Amīyah Oil Terminal (ميناء خور العمية, alt. Khor al-Amaya Oil Terminal, KAAOT), the terminals provide the principal point of export for more than eighty percent of Iraq's gross domestic product as of 2009, [1] and all of the oil from the southern Başrah refinery.