Iraq has commenced work on an oil pipeline linking Basra to Haditha with a planned capacity of 2.5 million barrels per day, the state news agency has reported, citing the oil ministry, as the OPEC producer seeks to expand export routes.
About $1.5 billion has been allocated for the project, although its pace will depend on securing further budget allocations, the ministry said on Friday.
The 700-kilometre (435-mile) pipeline will transport crude for export through multiple routes, including Syria’s Baniyas, Türkiye’s Ceyhan and Jordan’s Aqaba, while also supplying refineries along its path, a ministry spokesperson said.
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On Sunday, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani chaired a meeting to follow up on the Basra-Haditha pipeline project, approved in 2024, and said it had been conceived as a proactive step anticipating current regional conditions and guarding against potential disruption to existing export routes.
