Oil flows from Kirkuk fields to Daura refinery resumed
Workers at Tawke oil field in Iraqi Kurdistan. Photo: AFP/Getty Images
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – A source at the North Oil Company (NOC) revealed on Tuesday that oil supplies from Kirkuk fields to the Daura refinery in the capital, Baghdad, have been resumed after they stopped in 2014 because of ISIS.
The source told Shafaq News that several protective devices, pressure gauges, and temperature gauges were added, along with extensive maintenance performed on the electric motor and main pump of a pipeline.
“Work is continuing to rehabilitate the other pumps that have stopped working,” the source revealed.
During a recent meeting with the US Special Presidential Coordinator for Global Infrastructure and Energy Security, Amos Hochstein, the Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fuad Hussein, highlighted the perspectives of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the federal government in Baghdad over the issue of oil exports from Iraqi Kurdistan via the pipeline that connects northern Iraq to the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
Due to the significance of the oil issues between the federal government and Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as their impact on the companies operating in northern Iraq and the oil market, Hochstein expressed the United States’ eagerness to expand cooperative efforts, particularly in the areas of energy, oil, and gas.