Iraq has resumed crude oil exports from northern Kirkuk oil fields to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan in Turkey after a week-long suspension due to an act of sabotage, a Middle East shipping agent said Monday.
Iraq
has
resumed crude oil exports from northern
Kirkuk
oil
fields to the Mediterranean
port
of
Ceyhan
in
Turkey
after
a week-long suspension due to an act of sabotage, a
Middle
East
shipping agent said Monday.
Exports of some 300,000 barrels a day were suspended last Sunday as smugglers
were able to cut the pipeline at al-Shurgat north of Baiji some 200 kilometer
north of
Baghdad
in
order to steal and smuggle the crude, a person familiar with the matter said
last week.
"The flow was resumed as from 0600 local time on Friday," the
shipping agent told Dow Jones Newswires. "Since Friday up to now, they
have pumped some 2.6 million barrels," he said.
One vessel has already loaded with 1.8 million barrels and left the terminal,
he said, adding that another ship will start loading in the coming few hours. Three
others are waiting at anchor, he added.
The Iraq-Turkey pipeline has frequently suffered attacks, sometimes inside
Turkey
and
on other occasions inside
Iraq
.
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