Baghdad stopped Kirkuk oil exports and three points to resolve the outstanding problems

Journal August 6, 2017

August 6, 2017

Kirkuk - Journal News

Iraq resumed the export of oil from the fields of Kirkuk, three hours after the decision of the Ministry of Oil to stop exporting, while the Council of Kirkuk set three points to solve the problems experienced by the province.

"The Federal Oil Ministry has stopped the export of oil from the oil fields of Kirkuk for three hours in order to rehabilitate some of the carrier lines," a member of the Kirkuk Council Mohammad Mohammad Majeed told the Journal News Sunday.

He pointed out that "the solution of the overlap in the export of oil lies in the legislation of the law of oil and gas," and solve Kirkuk's political, social, economic and military problems and find solutions to the points of contention between Baghdad and Erbil and the Kurdish parties.

A member of the oil and gas committee in the provincial council of Kirkuk Fuad Hussein said in a press statement that the Federal Oil Ministry and through an official book stopped the export of part of the oil exported from the fields of Kirkuk through the pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan.

However, the ministry did not explain the reasons for the suspension, but it is likely that the political reasons behind the decision that the Iraqi government no longer have a request for Kirkuk oil and that the total of Kirkuk oil constitutes 17% of the total Iraqi oil production and 83% of production in the province of Basra .

The total daily production of Kirkuk oil fields of the North Oil Company 160 thousand barrels, of which 50 thousand barrels in the chest to the Turkish port of Ceyhan through the pipeline.

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