Crude oil pumping from northern Iraq's Kirkuk oil fields to the Turkish Ceyhan port, which has been on hold since Sunday, is expected to resume in two days time, a senior Iraqi oil official said Tuesday.
Crude oil pumping from northern
Iraq
's
Kirkuk
oil
fields to the Turkish Ceyhan port, which has been on hold since Sunday, is
expected to resume in two days time, a senior Iraqi oil official said Tuesday.
"We need two more days to fix a leak in part of the northern export
pipeline that took place inside
Iraq
,"
the official, who spoke in condition of anonymity, told Dow Jones Newswires.
He also said that a power fault that hit a section of the pipeline inside
Turkey
also
suspended the flow on Sunday.
Iraq
usually exports some 400,000 barrels a day or quarter of its total oil exports,
via the 790-kilometer pipeline from
Iraq
's oil
hub,
Kirkuk
in
the north, to the Mediterranean
port
of
Ceyhan
in
Turkey
.
Meantime, five vessels from various international companies are waiting at
anchorage in Ceyhan port to load
Kirkuk
crude, two
Middle East
shipping agents based in
Ceyhan, said.
This is the third time the flow has been suspended this month, sometimes due to
technical faults and other times blamed on sabotage. A week ago, a leak at a
section of the pipeline near the Iraqi city of
Mosul
suspended the flow for five days.
The pipeline has also been repeatedly targeted by suspected insurgents in
recent months, halting pumping in
Iraq
and
Turkey
. Earlier
this month, an explosion carried out by insurgents who are fighting against the
Turkish government suspended exports through the pipeline for two days.
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