Petrodollars: Fight for Kobani Has a Key Oil Aspect to It

Nov 3, 2014 | Platts
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The focus of the Islamic State group’s military campaign in Iraq and Syria has shifted in recent weeks from lands around Iraq’s northern oil fields to an obscure town on Syria’s border with Turkey.

Yet the battle raging in Kobani, a town of fewer than 45,000, is significant for regional oil and gas supplies, including about 290,000 b/d of crude from Iraqi Kurdistan currently flowing through the southern Turkish pipeline system linking northern Iraq with the Ceyhan oil terminal.