Earthquakes Delay Oil Exports from Turkish Port

Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Although flows were halted on Turkish oil pipelines after Monday's devastating earthquakes, some of the country's major pipelines have begun flowing again, and exports from a key terminal are restarting.

After the earthquakes, oil flows on Turkey's Kirkuk-Ceyhan crude oil pipeline were halted as precaution, but subsequent inspections have been completed, and the pipeline is flowing again. The pipeline, which transports Iraqi crude oil to Turkey, has a design capacity of 1.6 million barrels per day (BBL/d), but due to ongoing repairs and maintenance, its flows typically range from 300,000 to 450,000 BBL/d. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Pipeline Asset Database can click here for the pipeline profile.

The pipeline terminates at the Port of Ceyhan's crude oil terminal on the Mediterranean coast, which receives oil from various pipelines and moves about 1 million BBL/d. Although some exports of Iraqi crude oil from the terminal have resumed, a full restart timeline has not been established. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Terminals Plant Database can click here for the plant profile.

Other pipelines leading to the export hub that are flowing include the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline, which originates in Azerbaijan and has a design capacity of 1 million BBL/d and an average throughput volume of 600,000 BBL/d. However, the oil was only being stored at the terminal and exports of the Azeri oil were halted, although they could possibly resume today. Subscribers can click here for the pipeline's asset profiles.

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