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Iraq resumes pumping exports to Turkey after the "longest" downtime
TUESDAY, JULY 16, 2013 16:39
Twilight News / shipping source said, Tuesday, that the supply of crude oil flow resumed in the pipeline Kirkuk - Ceyhan after a break in the wake of the tubes after tests of a leak.
The source said in a statement seen by "Twilight News", "The pumping of oil from Kirkuk resumed yesterday evening and that the first new supplies of Kirkuk and arrived at the port today."
And stopped supplies on June 21 and resumed twice flow for a short time last week.
The pipeline transmits the Iraqi Kirkuk crude average high density of sulfur to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean, and the usually exports about 300 thousand barrels per day.
According to Reuters, the halt oil supplies, which lasted more than three weeks and is one of the longest stop operations during recent years and contributed to the rise in crude prices in the Mediterranean region.
Are often subjected Iraqi oil pipelines to Turkey, to stop pumping regularly, due to technical problems and the other linked to armed attacks on the conveyor lines.
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TUESDAY, JULY 16, 2013 16:39
Twilight News / shipping source said, Tuesday, that the supply of crude oil flow resumed in the pipeline Kirkuk - Ceyhan after a break in the wake of the tubes after tests of a leak.
The source said in a statement seen by "Twilight News", "The pumping of oil from Kirkuk resumed yesterday evening and that the first new supplies of Kirkuk and arrived at the port today."
And stopped supplies on June 21 and resumed twice flow for a short time last week.
The pipeline transmits the Iraqi Kirkuk crude average high density of sulfur to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean, and the usually exports about 300 thousand barrels per day.
According to Reuters, the halt oil supplies, which lasted more than three weeks and is one of the longest stop operations during recent years and contributed to the rise in crude prices in the Mediterranean region.
Are often subjected Iraqi oil pipelines to Turkey, to stop pumping regularly, due to technical problems and the other linked to armed attacks on the conveyor lines.
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