By MICHA’EL TANCHUM
The Jerusalem Post - 07/08/2014
Turkey seems to have officially disavowed any support for the
independence of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq, despite AK
Party deputy chairman Hüseyin Çelik’s June 28 comments to The Financial
Times to the contrary. However, the KRG’s recent export of oil to
Turkey’s Mediterranean oil port of Ceyhan, which after transshipment
arrived in Israel’s Ashkelon port, highlighted the economic benefit to
Turkey of a Kurdish political entity in Iraq with sufficient autonomy
to market its energy independent of the constraints of the Iraqi
central government in Baghdad.
Indeed, Ankara’s far-sighted effort to become a leading energy
transportation hub includes a new oil refinery on Turkey’s Aegean coast
and the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline that respectively can
accommodate oil and natural gas from the autonomous Kurdish region of
Iraq.
The new $5.6 billion STAR oil refinery is being built at the Petkim
Petrochecmical Complex about 50 km north of the Turkish coastal city of
Izmir. Petkim is the largest petrochemicals manufacturer in Turkey and
currently accounts for approximately 30 percent of Turkey’s market
share for refined petroleum products.
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