VOL. XLVI

No 32

11-August-2003

IRAQ

Northern Pumping To Start Soon With Exports Not Before End-August

The CEO of the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, Thamir Ghadhban, told a press conference in Baghdad on 7 August that he hoped to begin pumping very soon Kirkuk crude through the Iraq-Turkish pipeline system, attributing the delay so far to problems with the control system, communications equipment, computers, and equipment which, regrettably, was looted, adding that the ministry is currently working on...