Iraq/Kurdistan: Baghdad Bid to Raise Oil Exports from Kurdistan; British to Reconsider

Jan 12, 2015 | World Bulletin
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The central government in Iraq began constructing a new oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Erbil to increase oil exports from region, an official from the Kurdish regional government in the north said on Sunday. 

"The existing pipelines are old and can deliver only 175,000 barrels of oil daily. Thus, the construction of a new pipeline between the Kirkuk and Kurdish region began and is expected to be complete in June," Kirkuk city council’s secretary for oil and gas, Fuad Hussein told The Anadolu Agency. 

He said that the new pipeline will be able to deliver 300,000 barrels of oil per day when completed. 

The current amount of oil exports from Kirkuk to Erbil is 150,000 barrels, both due to low production and technical hurdles.