Militants blocking repairs to #Iraq-Turkey #Oil #pipeline
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/militants-blocking-repairs-iraq-turkey-oil-pipeline
Insurgents are preventing repair work on Iraq’s northern oil export pipeline, Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani said on Saturday, extending what is already the longest outage since the 1990s. The pipeline, which runs from Iraq’s Kirkuk oilfields to Ceyhan port in #turkey, has been idled since early March, when militants blew it up. On Thursday Iraq’s oil ministry said that its oil exports fell to 2.39 million barrels per day (bpd) on average in March, down from a record 2.8 million in February due to repeated sabotage of a northern pipeline. read more