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Planning put alternative plans in case of closing the Strait of Hormuz
Date: Thursday, 23.02.2012 7:26
□ Baghdad / follow-up long-
announced the Ministry of Planning for the development of alternative plans to export oil through a number of directions and means in the event of closing the Strait of Hormuz, which is the main passage for oil exports.
said Planning Minister Ali Shukri told a news conference was the formation of committees and discussed what we can do if closed Strait, pointing to "the possibility of increasing exports from Ceyhan line (via Turkish territory) to one million barrels."
Shukri said: "We also discussed with the Lebanese and Syrian sides in activating the Banias line Tripoli through Syria and Lebanon." He pointed to the existence of an option to increase export by tankers.
and "there is put in the Council of Ministers is seeking activation of the line of the export of strategic, which passes through Saudi territory, and stalled for many years and has denied holding talks with the Saudi side, the subject holds all the countries of the region, especially countries that import oil from Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. "
Iraq exports through this tube Turkish between 400 to 450 thousand barrels per day, while the issue most of its oil through the port of Basra, south of the country, which requests access to it to cross the Strait of Hormuz.
and waved Iranian officials have repeatedly possibility of closing the Strait in response to sanctions increased on the Islamic Republic.
and declared Iran's ambassador to the United Nations earlier that his country would not seek to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, but if you try a foreign power to "tighten the screws" on Tehran in its nuclear program.
and government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said, told AFP early February that his country could be affected in case of closing the Strait of Hormuz to shipments of crude oil.
He continued, "that Iraq has not yet been able to build infrastructure that could be that the diversity of a way to export oil. So far, the pipeline with Syria is not a factor, and the capacity of the pipeline with Turkey remains low. "
Iraq produces 2.9 million barrels of oil per day, and emits more than two million, but these rates are still lower than it was during the former regime.
The oil revenues 94 percent of the country's revenues.
Iraq has the third reserve a world of oil is estimated at 115 billion barrels after Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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