Offshore

Iraq adds oil-export facility to offset output drop in Kurd feud

The conflict with the self-governed Kurdish region has suspended pipeline efforts in the north of Iraq, prompting it to begin using an offshore crude-exporting facility.
Photo: Nabil al-Jurani/AP/Polfoto/Arkiv
Photo: Nabil al-Jurani/AP/Polfoto/Arkiv
BY ANTHONY DIPAOLA & JULIAN LEE, BLOOMBERG

Iraq began using a new offshore crude-exporting facility to help boost shipments by sea and make up for a suspension of pipeline exports from the country's north due to a conflict with the self-governed Kurdish region.

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