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A staff member points at a screen showing a map of the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline at Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan | ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English Archive 2005 -2017
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A staff member points at a screen showing a map of the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline at Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, which is run by state-owned Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (BOTAS), some 70 km (43.5 miles) from Adana February 19, 2014. Crude oil flow through the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline linking Iraq to Turkey restarted on Wednesday at a rate of at a rate of about 300,000-350,000 barrels per day (bpd), a Turkish energy official said. The pipeline, which carries Kirkuk crude to Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, was down for more than 10 days after coming under an attack, the official said. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY – Tags: ENERGY POLITICS BUSINESS)