The Kirkuk–Baniyas pipeline is a crude oil pipeline from the
Kirkuk oil field in
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...
to the
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
n port of
Baniyas
Baniyas ( ar, بَانِيَاس ') is a Mediterranean coastal city in Tartous Governorate, northwestern Syria, located south of Latakia (ancient Laodicea) and north of Tartous (ancient Tortosa).
It is known for its citrus fruit orchards and ...
. The pipeline is around long and the capacity is .
[
] The pipeline was opened on 23 April 1952.
Between
1982
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and
2000
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the pipeline was shout by Iraq, due to Syrian support to Iran during the
Iran–Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. It began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for almost eight years, until the acceptance of United Nations Security Counci ...
.
During the
2003 invasion of Iraq
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, the pipeline was damaged by U.S. air-strikes and remained out of operation since then.
[
]
On 17 December 2007, Syria and Iraq agreed to rehabilitate the pipeline. The pipeline was to be reconstructed by
Stroytransgaz
OAO Stroytransgaz (russian: Стройтрансгаз) is a Russian engineering construction company in the field of oil and gas industry. The company was founded in 1990. It was originally a subsidiary of Gazprom, but now controlled by Gennady T ...
, a subsidiary of
Gazprom
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.
[
] However, Stroytransgaz failed to start the rehabilitation and the contract was nullified in April 2009.
[
] As the rehabilitation of the existing pipeline occurred to be more costly than building a new pipeline, in September 2010 Iraq and Syria agreed to build two new Kirkuk–Baniyas pipelines.
[
][
] One pipeline with capacity of would carry heavier crude oil while another pipeline capacity of would carry lighter crude oil.
[
]
See also
*
Kirkuk–Ceyhan Oil Pipeline
References
External links
The Kirkuk – Baniyas Pipeline
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kirkuk-Baniyas pipeline
Oil pipelines in Iraq
Oil pipelines in Syria
Iraq–Syria relations