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Iraqi terminal overhaul
to be completed in 2025
IRAQ IRAQ’S Basra Oil Co. (BOC) anticipates resum- fault and repair it. Work “to restore a large part
ing operations at the Khor al-Amaya Oil Termi- of the port’s design capacity” of 600,000 bpd is
nal (KAAOT) next year ahead of the completion expected to end in 2025.
of its rehabilitation in 2025. Dhaim said that the contract to complete a
Speaking to the Arabic language Iraqi News third pipeline is ongoing and “the pipeline may
Agency (INA), BOC deputy director Ahmed enter work at the end of 2023”.
Fadel Dhaim said: “There is an effort to carry This follows comments in March from
out work to restore the carrier pipeline that was BOC – a subsidiary of the Iraqi National Oil
damaged two years ago, with the aim of increas- Co. (INOC) – saying that marine pipelines to
ing export capacity by 300,000 barrels per day.” offshore loading moorings are part of efforts to
A figure of 400,000 bpd was previously given increase crude export capacity from the south-
as guidance for capacity upon resumption of ern ports – KAAOT and the larger Al-Basrah
operations. Oil Terminal (ABOT) – from 3.5mn bpd to 6mn
He said that the “final touches to complete the bpd by 2026.
third offshore pipeline are taking place now, as it This will include the laying of two 48-inch
will be linked to the port in one of its branches (1,066-mm) pipelines as well as the construction
and will be at the end of the year 2023.” and installation of new single-point mooring
KAAOT has been largely shut-in since leak- (SPM) facilities, noting that BOC is preparing a
ages occurred in 2017, caused by ruptures in the tender worth around $1bn that will be opened
pipeline feeding the facility. Dhaim explained last up to international companies.
month: “There is no problem in the al-Amaya Last year, an unnamed Russian firm was
port and it is ready to work. The defect in it lies awarded a contract to assess and carry out
in the transporting and exporting pipeline,” add- repairs on the 42-inch underwater pipe that
ing that a company has begun work to locate the feeds the offshore SPMs.
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