Iraq Resumes Oil Exports From Kirkuk After Year-Long Halt
- Up to 100,000 barrels a day flowing through pipeline to Turkey
- Restart may complicate OPEC’s efforts to prevent an oil glut
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Iraq said it resumed oil exports from Kirkuk to Turkey, which had been halted for a year by a political dispute between the central government and the nation’s Kurds.
Between 50,0000 and 100,000 barrels a day are now being pumped through a pipeline from northern Iraq to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, Oil Ministry spokesman Asim Jihad said by phone. Flows stopped in October 2017 when Baghdad reclaimed control of Kirkuk fields from the Kurds, but not the pipeline needed to ship the crude to international markets.