Kurds offer to export Kirkuk crude

摘要

London—The Kurdistan Regional Government is proposing to use its own pipeline system to enable the federal Iraqi government to continue exporting some crude from the Kirkuk oil field in the troubled north of the country. Baghdad has been unable to export any crude from Kirkuk to Ceyhan on the Turkish Mediterranean since an attack by insurgents closed the main Iraq-Turkey crude pipeline on March 2. Iraq had been exporting some 300,000 b/d of crude from Ceyhan before the latest attack on the line put it out of action.