Turkey says Iraq oil pipeline will resume 'this week'

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Turkey says Iraq oil pipeline will resume 'this week'

Turkey says Iraq oil pipeline will resume 'this week'
by AFP Staff Writers
Istanbul (AFP) Oct 2, 2023

Turkey said Monday that an Iraqi oil pipeline that ceased operations in March because of a complex payments dispute involving the Kurdish autonomous region will resume pumping crude this week.

Turkey closed the pipeline after an arbitration court ordered Ankara to pay about $1.5 billion in damages to Baghdad for transporting oil from the Kurdistan region without Iraq's approval.

Ankara contested the decision and sought damages of its own.

The autonomous Kurdish region was exporting roughly 450,000 barrels of crude per day prior to the pipeline's closure.

Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar told an energy forum in Abu Dhabi that the dispute has been settled and "we will start to operate (the pipeline) this week".

He did not disclose details of the agreement.

Turkey had previously said it was conducting repairs to its section of the oil link in the wake of a major February earthquake.

The Iraqi federal government and the Kurdistan autonomous region signed their own temporary oil accord in April.

The deal signalled the end of independent oil exports by northern Iraq's Kurdish regional government.

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