At Turkish port, Kurds load first pipeline exports
Turkey has facilitated the loading of KRG crude onto a tanker, raising the prospect of an escalating political dispute within Iraq and a legal battle between Baghdad and Ankara.
The final welded section of the KRG's Khurmala - Feyshkabour pipeline lies by trenching immediately south of oil storage tanks at DNO International's pumping station, 3km from the Turkey border, in November 2013. (PATRICK OSGOOD/Iraq Oil Report)
Turkey has completed loading the first pipeline exports from Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) onto an oil tanker in the Mediterranean - a development that promises to escalate Iraq's long-standing disputes over the balance of oil powers.
A Marshall Islands-flagged tanker called the United Leadership arrived at the Turkish port of Ceyhan on Tuesday, according to public port records. A Turkish Energy Ministry official and several industry officials confirmed that crude was being transferred from Kurdish-designated storage tanks into the ship, which can hold about 1 million barrels.
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