New pipeline plan could spur Baghdad-Erbil cooperation
Oil from federally controlled oil fields could flow through Kurdistan's new export pipeline to Turkey within six months.
ERBIL - Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has agreed in principle to use its new pipeline to export crude oil produced by the federal North Oil Company (NOC) – an initiative which could strengthen economic ties between Erbil and Baghdad and change the political dynamics of Iraq's long-running disputes over oil policy.
Under the prospective plan, Kurdistan's Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) and the NOC would work together to commission a new 36-inch pipeline to connect federal oil infrastructure in Kirkuk with Kurdistan's recently completed pipeline running from Khurmala Dome – one of three domes that comprise the Kirkuk oil field and the only one that is fully in KRG-controlled territory – to Feyshkabour, at the Turkish border.
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