Oil trucking to Iran at crossroads as pipeline exports loom
Kurdistan has been trucking large volumes of crude oil through Iran, a trade set to change as the KRG plans to begin exporting crude by pipeline
Hundreds of tankers wait to cross into Iran in one of several lots near the Parwezkhan border crossing in Diyala province, Nov 6, 2013. (PATRICK OSGOOD/Iraq Oil Report)
BASHMAH - In a dirt lot filled with tanker trucks on the outskirts of Penjwin town, near the eastern border of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, Ali shuffled his right foot restlessly and looked east toward Iran.
"It's taking 12 days to get through the Iranian border this time," he said. "This is my longest delay ever."
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