Baghdad Bets on Syria and Turkey Pipelines to Secure Oil Exports

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Baghdad is assembling a westward export system capable of carrying southern Iraqi crude to the Mediterranean through Syria or Turkey. Iraq has brought Chevron, U.S. investment firm Capital TI, and Qatar’s UCC into technical and financial studies for two oil export pipelines built around a common Basra-Haditha trunk. One route would continue through Kirkuk to Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan; the other would cross Syria to Baniyas. KBR is conducting a separate study of the Basra-Haditha section,…