Second tanker loads Kurdish pipeline exports
Another tanker has left Turkey with 1 million barrels of crude piped from the KRG, as Erbil and Ankara remain undeterred by Baghdad threats and U.S. objections.
A worker checks the valve gears of pipes linked to oil tanks at Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, which is run by state-owned pipeline company Botas. (UMIT BEKTAS/Reuters)
Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has loaded another tanker with crude exported by pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, despite legal and commercial pressure from Baghdad and opposition from the U.S.
The tanker United Emblem left Ceyhan laden with about 1 million barrels of oil on Monday morning, according to an official from Palmali Shipping, which acted as agent for the vessel. The official confirmed the crude had been loaded from storage tanks allocated to the KRG.
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