Kurdish oil to flow through Turkey

Toronto News.Net
Tuesday 12th May, 2009

The Iraqi Oil Ministry has announced the commencement of oil exports from fields in semi-autonomous Kurdistan.

Heralding a breakthrough in the bitter feud over control of Iraq's oil wealth, the Iraqi Oil Ministry has said the country will begin exporting crude extracted from some of the oil fields in Kurdistan.

Taking steps to increase Iraqi output and export levels, the government in Baghdad has agree to allow the Kurds to begin the first official oil exports.

The Kurdish government will now be able to send oil through the Iraqi pipelines to Ceyhan in Turkey from June 1st, at a rate of 60,000 barrels per day.

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