IRAQ-TURKEY

Italian/Turkish Group Wins Second Pipeline Contract 

The Turkish state pipeline company Botas announced on 9 August that a consortium comprising Saipem of Italy and the Turkish companies Kutlutas and Tefken has won the contract to construct the 720-km. Turkish section of the second 500,000 b/d crude oil pipeline between Iraq's northern oil fields and the Ceyhan terminal on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. The contract award follows the signature in Baghdad on 31 July...