Gulf Keystone tests for pipeline exports
<p>The Kurdistan region’s fourth-largest oil producer is evaluating whether to add its production to the pipeline export blend, instead of trucking it 1,000 kilometers to Turkey's Dortyol port.</p>
Workers at the Gulf Keystone Petroleum production facility at the Shaikan block fill trucks in May 2012. (SEBASTIAN MEYER/Metrography/Iraq Oil Report)
LONDON - The Kurdistan region’s fourth-largest oil producer is evaluating whether to add its production to the pipeline export blend, instead of trucking it 1,000 kilometers to Turkey's Dortyol port.
"We’ve sent five trucks so far for testing purposes," said Gulf Keystone Petroleum CEO John Gerstenlauer on the sidelines of the CWC Kurdistan-Iraq conference in London. "We may be doing it but it’s not definite yet.”
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