KRG prepares to link pipeline to politics
A new Kurdistan export pipeline is being readied to tie into the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline within Iraqi territory but after the federal Oil Ministry's final metering station.
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. August 17, 2013. (PATRICK OSGOOD/Iraq Oil Report)
FEYSHKABOUR - Less than three kilometers from Iraq's border with Turkey, earth movers and trucks heave dirt and flatten a large patch of land next to an oil metering station. Fabrication has started as valves and sections of pipe lie in stacks, waiting to be assembled.
This will be the site of a new oil pipeline tie-in station that could by the end of the year allow the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to bypass federal Iraqi controls and export crude directly to Turkey's Mediterranean ports. Such infrastructure would help cement the independent oil policy that has driven the KRG's warming ties with Ankara and its deteriorating relationship with Baghdad.
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