Kurdistan pipeline to start exports in 2013

Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region expects to start exporting its oil along a new pipeline to the Turkish border by August 2013, defying Baghdad in a long-running dispute over who controls the country's oil sales.

Plans: Oil Minister Ashti Hawrami said Kurdistan was also developing plans for a separate pipeline to Turkey's Ceyhan port
Plans: Oil Minister Ashti Hawrami said Kurdistan was also developing plans for a separate pipeline to Turkey's Ceyhan port
Published 21 May 2012, 03:28Updated 6 October 2016, 10:38
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