Exports from Iraq's northern Kirkuk oil fields to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan in Turkey have resumed after three-day outage caused by a bomb attack against a key pipeline, two Middle East shipping agents said Thursday.
Exports from
Iraq
's
northern
Kirkuk
oil
fields to the Mediterranean
port
of
Ceyhan
in
Turkey
have
resumed after three-day outage caused by a bomb attack against a key pipeline,
two
Middle East
shipping agents said Thursday.
"The flow resumed at 1800 local time (1500 GMT) Wednesday," a
shipping agent based in Ceyhan told Dow Jones Newswires. "They are pumping
at 22,000 barrels an hour (or 528,000 barrels a day)," he said.
On Monday, attackers blew up part of the export pipeline near a village called
Shurgat south of
Mosul
governorate, which caused flows to be suspended.
"One vessel is loading with
Kirkuk
crude
at Ceyhan and four others are waiting to load," another shipping agent
said.
Iraq
normally exports an average of 300,000 to 350,000 barrels a day via the
pipeline, though the second shipping agent said
Iraq
has
pumped 700,000 barrels a day since the flows resumed to compensate for the
outage. The pipeline was idle for many years due to acts of sabotage after the
U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
The pipeline has suffered frequent attacks on both sides of the Turkey-Iraq
border. Last week the pipeline was cut in a similar location in order to
smuggle crude oil.
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