VOL. XLVI

No 34

25-August-2003

IRAQ

SOMO To Resume Pumping Through One Kirkuk Pipeline At Weekend

Iraqs State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) plans to restart pumping Kirkuk crude at the weekend through one of the Iraq-Turkey pipelines, after the attacks of 15-16 August that saw one of the pipelines ruptured by saboteurs in two places Baiji and 'Ain Zalah - several kilometers apart. With only 1mn barrels in storage at Ceyhan it is now not expected that Kirkuk exports will restart until...