Iraq oil exports unaffected by fighting: Official
Iraqi exports of 300,000 barrels of oil per day through Turkey have not been affected by a Turkish military operation on the countries' border, the Iraqi oil ministry said on Saturday.
By Agencies |
BAGHDAD: Iraqi exports of 300,000 barrels of oil per day through Turkey have not been affected by a Turkish military operation on the countries' border, the Iraqi oil ministry said on Saturday.
"Iraqi oil exports are flowing normally through Ceyhan, and military operations did not effect it," the ministry's spokesman Aasim Jihad said.
Iraq's northern oil fields are connected to the Turkish port of Ceyhan by a pipeline that crosses the two countries' border in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, where Turkish troops are fighting separatist rebels.
"Iraq and Turkey are serious about continuing Iraqi oil exports. This is about 300,000 barrels of crude per day through Ceyhan," Jihad said.
On Thursday, Ankara confirmed that it had sent troops into northern Iraq to hunt down groups of guerrilla fighters from the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), triggering concern on international oil markets.
Most of Iraq's oil, a further 1.6 million barrels per day, is exported through the southern port of Basra, but the fighting in the north this week helped push oil prices in New York up to 98.81 dollars per barrel.
"Iraqi oil exports are flowing normally through Ceyhan, and military operations did not effect it," the ministry's spokesman Aasim Jihad said.
Iraq's northern oil fields are connected to the Turkish port of Ceyhan by a pipeline that crosses the two countries' border in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, where Turkish troops are fighting separatist rebels.
"Iraq and Turkey are serious about continuing Iraqi oil exports. This is about 300,000 barrels of crude per day through Ceyhan," Jihad said.
On Thursday, Ankara confirmed that it had sent troops into northern Iraq to hunt down groups of guerrilla fighters from the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), triggering concern on international oil markets.
Most of Iraq's oil, a further 1.6 million barrels per day, is exported through the southern port of Basra, but the fighting in the north this week helped push oil prices in New York up to 98.81 dollars per barrel.
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