Kurdistan: oil pipeline to Turkey is a reality | beyondbrics

Kurdistan: oil pipeline to Turkey is a reality | beyondbrics:

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Iraq’s semi autonomous region of Kurdistan has given its clearest signals yet that it is preparing to realise the export of oil and gas by pipeline via Turkey, independent of the Iraqi central government in Baghdad.

Ashti Hawrami (pictured), the Regional Government’s minister of natural resources, said that the central government will have to accept that the Kurdistan Regional Government can export oil and gas without interference from Baghdad.

Speaking at a conference in Istanbul on October 31, Hawrami said: “Nowhere in the world does 1m barrels a day (of crude oil production capacity) remain stranded forever.”

“Oil export is a reality, it is happening,” he said referring to the fact that following the breakdown last year of an agreement with Baghdad which saw Kurdish crude exported through the Baghdad controlled Iraq-Turkey (Kirkuk-Ceyhan) pipeline, Kurdish crude has been exported through Turkey by truck, independent of Baghdad."

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