LONDON (Dow Jones)--Oil shipments through a pipeline from Iraq's Kirkuk oil fields into the Turkish Mediterranean export terminal Ceyhan resumed at a rate of 12,000 barrels of crude an hour, at 1100 local time Monday, a shipping agent said.
This is a flow rate equivalent to around 288,000 barrels a day, traders of Mediterranean crude said.
Total inventory of Kirkuk crude available at Ceyhan stood at 4.15 million barrels Monday, the agent added.
The Delta Salior vessel is scheduled to lift crude at the Ceyhan terminal, Turkey, at 0100 local time Wednesday