SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ) MESOP NEWS : Pipeline outages threaten Kurdistan oil autonomy

By PATRICK OSGOOD, KAMARAN AL-NAJAR, BEN VAN HEUVELEN & RAWAZ TAHIR of Iraq Oil Report – August 26th, 2015 – Iraqi oil exports to Turkey’s Ceyhan port are stopped again after going offline Monday morning – the latest in an intensifying pattern of outages that have blocked Kurdistan’s oil sector from reaching the international market for one-third of August.The combined effect of a slump in oil prices and incessant outages along the pipeline could jeopardize the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) policy of becoming self-reliant through independent oil exports: www.mesop.de