Tupras denies buying Kurdish crude from Ceyhan

摘要

Istanbul—Turkey’s sole refiner Tupras denied Tuesday it plans to take delivery of disputed crude from Iraqi Kurdistan after tracking data pointed to a cargo of Kurdish oil on route to its Izmit refinery. Platts vessel-tracking software cFlow indicated that the Greek-registered tanker carrying a second cargo of Kurdish oil was bound for the northern Turkish port of Derince. The port is adjacent to Turkey’s largest oil refinery, the 11 million mt/year (220,900 b/d) Izmit refinery owned by Turkey’s sole refinery operator Tupras.