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Oil & Gas
Iraq Crude Output Gets Pipeline Repair Boost
15 Jun 2018
Iraq has restored an important domestic pipeline link between its northern fields and Baghdad. The 40,000 b/d pipeline will carry crude oil from the Kirkuk field to the 140,000 b/d Daura refinery and 1.4GW Al-Quds power plant at Baghdad, via Baiji. This should enable Kirkuk output to rise from the current 200,000 b/d.
Daura is the second largest operational Iraqi refinery after the 210,000 b/d Basra refinery – following the destruction of the 310,000 b/d Baiji plant by the Islamic State (IS) in 2014. The government is working on rehabilitating Baiji, but progress is slow.
The rehabilitation of the Kirkuk-Baiji-Daura link is a rare success when it comes to midstream infrastructure in Iraq. A planned 1mn b/d pipeline to Jordan has yet to be approved by the government (MEES, 27 April), and the oil ministry has gone quiet regarding a new 1.2mn b/d pipeline from Kirkuk...
