Turkey Pushes for Full Use of Kurdistan Oil Pipeline

Turkey wants Iraq to ensure that the oil pipeline from the semi-autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean is utilized to its capacity as Ankara and Baghdad are discussing terms of extending the pipeline agreement expiring next year.   “This pipeline has a capacity of almost 1.5 million barrels per day. There’s no flow at the moment. Even when it did flow, it was never at full capacity,” Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said, as carried by Reuters.  Turkey is proposing…