Iraq/Kurdistan: NOC Oil Heading to Market Via Kurdistan

Jan 7, 2015 | Kamaran al-Najar, Patrick Osgood, and Ben Lando, Iraq Oil Report
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Iraq's federal North Oil Company (NOC) has begun exporting Kirkuk crude for the first time since militants led by the so-called Islamic State (IS) bombed the pipeline to Turkey nearly a year ago. The fields that still remain under the control of the state-run North Oil Company (NOC) – which since June has lost smaller assets to the IS group and larger fields to Kurdish appropriation – are sending 150,000 barrels per day (bpd) north via a pipeline network controlled by the Kurdistan Region.