The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and London-listed upstream independent Genel Energy are relying on the KRG’s strengthening political relations with Turkey to sidestep Baghdad’s control of Iraqi Kurdistan’s energy sector. Genel chief executive Tony Hayward on 31 July reiterated KRG expectations that a new 300,000 b/d crude export pipeline linking fields in Iraqi Kurdistan to Fishkhabour at the Turkish border will come on line this year. The pipeline would enable a sharp boost in exports from Kurdistan to Turkey’s Mediterranean Ceyhan port from the 30,000-40,000 b/d currently delivered by truck. The new pipeline could be linked to Iraq’s Kirkuk-Ceyhan export pipeline in Turkey a few miles north of the Fishkhabour injection point.
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