KRG exports start and Turkey line operational
Late Wednesday fix restarts Iraq's export pipeline into Turkey, and Kurdish crude officially restarted exports.
Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani (R) and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani open a ceremonial valve during an event in Erbil to mark the start of oil exports on June 1, 2009. (SAFIN HAMED/Reuters)
ERBIL - Iraq is exporting more than 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) as of late Aug. 8, including 100,000 bpd from the Kurdistan region, after Turkey fixed the export pipeline bombed three days ago.
Turkish officials had said it would take as long as 10 days to fix, because of damage to the main and secondary trunks of the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline, which runs from Kirkuk to the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
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