Turkey/Kurdistan/Iraq: Turkey Starts Repairs on Iraqi Kurdish Oil Pipeline as Violence Flares

Feb 27, 2016 | Humeyra Pamuk and Seyhmus Cakan, Reuters
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Turkey has begun work to repair a pipeline taking crude oil from northern Iraq to the Mediterranean through its restive southeast and aims to restore flows soon, the Turkish energy ministry said on Saturday. The pipeline, which has been repeatedly sabotaged in recent months, normally carries some 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude from Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region and the disputed Kirkuk oil fields to the port of Ceyhan for export.