Iraqi Oil Police initiate measures to combat possible attack, especially along the northern export pipeline.
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Repair crews are scrambling to fix yet another interdiction in the northern crude export pipeline which is being blamed on sabotage.
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Will any company risk insurgents and the Arab vs. Kurd dispute to invest in four small but prospective fields? No.
Taq-Taq aim is 180K bpd despite no export rights
Swiss-Canadian independent Addax Petroleum has reiterated goals of producing 180,000 b/d of oil from its Taq-Taq field in Iraqi Kurdistan within two years, despite the bulk of its current production capacity at the field being shut in for lack of export routes. During a company strategy presentation, Addax said that current production stood at 11,000–12,000 [...]
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Oil hub Kirkuk sees massive bombing during political lunch
EDITOR'S NOTE: Two people have pointed out corrections, or rather clarifications, that it is necessary to make to this post. I have left the original as a reminder of the risk of becoming detached. 1. The second paragraph of the first story should read: Yaseen Taha and Adam Ashton offer the most personal account and [...]
