In a major step towards greater energy sector efficiency – and autonomy from Baghdad – Kurdistan is almost done building the first leg of key gas and oil pipelines.

Strategic KRG pipelines near completion

Strategic KRG pipelines near completion
Pieces of the Erbil-Dohuk gas pipeline, built by the KAR Group, laid out waiting to be welded together. (KAMARAN NAJM/Metrography/Iraq Oil Report)

Retrofitted construction trucks turn rock into dust, cutting through the jagged hillside, clearing a straight path for Kurdistan's new oil pipeline through the region's difficult terrain.Soon, more than four times the amount of crude will be sent from the Taq Taq oil field to the Khurmala Dome depot than is currently loaded by tanker truck.This strategic pipeline project has been fast-tracked, and crews are working the path."The ground is very, very hard so we have to use the jackham...

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