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The flow of Kurdish crude oil has been halted as the Kirkuk-Ceyhanpipeline was sabotaged in Turkey.

The pipeline transports 600 000 bpd of crude oil to Turkey鈥檚 Ceyhan port from Iraq鈥檚 Kurdish north fields and Kirkus. The line has been halted since its alleged sabotage on 17 February, and is not expected to go back online until at least 29 February due to security concerns.

Darbaz Kosrat Rasul , the Kurdistan Regional Government鈥檚 (KRG) Minister of Housing and Reconstruction stated: "Until now, the sabotaged pipeline has not been mended, which has been damaging the region鈥檚 economy by US$14 million a day."

After a cessation of hostilities last summer between Turkey and the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), it seems there are now renewed conflicts.

Numerous attacks have been made on the pipeline, where the KRG have accused the PKK. The opposition between the two derives from PKK鈥檚 detestation of the KRG鈥檚 economic relationship with Turkey.

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