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| - | By Can Sezer, Rowena Edwards and Julia Payne<br> | + | By Can Sezer, Rowena Edwards and Julia Payne<br> ISTANBUL/LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - A massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday halted operations at Turkey's major oil export hub in Ceyhan and stopped key crude oil flows from Iraq and Azerbaijan, [https://mediawiki1263.00web.net/index.php/Aston_Villa_To_Recall_Traore_From_His_Loan_At_Istanbul_Basaksehir Lawyer istanbul] officials said.<br> The Tribeca shipping agency said in a notice that the BTC terminal at Ceyhan that exports Azeri crude oil will be closed through Wednesday pending damage assessments.<br><br>Should you loved this post and also you wish to get more details regarding [https://www.wiklundkurucuk.com/Lawyer-istanbul-lv Lawyer istanbul] i implore you to stop by our web site. Azerbaijan uses the Turkish port of Ceyhan as its main crude export hub, with a flow of about 650,000 barrels per day (bpd).<br> BP Azerbaijan said a "small" oil leak had been found at Ceyhan, which led to operations being halted, and had been stopped.<br>A source familiar with Azeri flows said there was sufficient storage capacity in Ceyhan and in Azerbaijan, and a second source said flows could be reduced if needed.<br> Three sources with direct knowledge added the BTC pipeline was undamaged and Azerbaijan's storage at Sangachal, south of Baku, [https://www.wiklundkurucuk.com/Lawyer-istanbul-ir Lawyer istanbul] could alone allow current production levels to continue for four days.<br> After Monday's earthquake, Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) halted flows through the pipeline it operates that runs from Iraq's northern Kirkuk fields to Ceyhan, [https://webscliq.com/former-manchester-united-star-adnan-januzaj-joins-istanbul-basaksehir-4/ Lawyer istanbul] the region's ministry of natural resources (MNR) said.<br> The KRG had been pumping 400,000 bpd and Iraq's federal government was pumping 75,000 bpd through the pipeline, an oil industry source told Reuters.<br> Oil exports will resume after a "careful inspection of the pipelines is finalised," the MNR said in a statement.<br> Most upstream oil producers have several days of storage capacity, so KRG production should continue in the near term, the oil industry source added.<br> The eastern Mediterranean terminal of Ceyhan is some 155 km (96 miles) from the area of the magnitude 7.8 quake which struck southern Turkey and [https://www.wiklundkurucuk.com/Lawyer-istanbul-az Lawyer istanbul] northwest Syria early on Monday, killing more than 2,400 people across a swathe of the two countries as buildings collapsed.<br> It was the worst tremor to strike Turkey this century and was followed in the early afternoon by another large quake of magnitude 7.7.<br> Turkey's state pipeline operator BOTAS said natural gas flows were halted to Gaziantep, Hatay and Kahramanmaras provinces and some other districts as a result of damage to a gas transmission line.<br> Residents in northern Iraqi provinces reported feeling a light tremor following the earthquake.<br><br>(Reporting by Can Sezer in [https://www.wiklundkurucuk.com/Lawyer-istanbul-sg Lawyer istanbul], Rowena Edwards and Julia Payne in London, Amina Ismail in Erbil; Additional reporting by Jonathan Saul and Nailia Bagirova; editing by Jason Neely, Susan Fenton and Mark Potter)<br> |
