Kurdistan to double oil exports this year, plans pipeline
BAGHDAD — Iraq's autonomous province of Kurdistan plans to double
crude oil capacity in 2010.
Kurdish Natural Resource Minister Ashti Hawrami said the Kurdish
Regional Government (KRG) would more than double oil export capacity over the next
few months.
Hawrami said KRG plans to export up to 250,000 barrels per day
by 2011.
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In an address to a conference, Hawrami said KRG would launch a project
to construct a pipeline that would pump one million barrels of oil to
neighboring states.
The minister said KRG would issue a tender over the next
few months.
In October 2009, KRG suspended exports amid a dispute with
the Iraqi Oil Ministry in Baghdad.
"Ultimately we need a major pipeline that combines all the fields
together to the final export point," Hawrami said on March 24.