The Iraqi oil minister Mr. Abdul Kareem liaybi announced for the new oil export capacity which reached 2.900 barrel per day and estimated to be 3 million barrels at the end of this year. And this announcement was during a celebration attended by members of the council of deputies, the deputy oil minister for refining affairs and other responsible employees in the ministry of oil.
At the same time the oil minister opened the water purification system with the capacity of 513 M3 in addition to a primary water treatment unit with a power of 1000 M3 in Midland Refineries Company. And the oil minister assured that the need for these two units came after the need in the applied projects for purified water by reversed osmosis membrane feeders for steam boilers, in addition to the isomerisation units which will qualify the fuel production and this will contribute so much in reducing the maintenance costs … in addition to reduce the time and effort.
And In relation to the exports of Ceyhan- Kirkuk pipeline, Said the spokesman of the oil ministry Mr. Assim Jihad that the oil pumping was started after a stop because of technical reasons.
As well as Mr. Jihad said that the oil ministry is keen to rehabilitate the Iraqi refineries by depending on the national efforts or the international expertise. And added that the application of the mentioned units was made according to a contract between the midland refineries company and the Lebanese company (IMCO) whom made the design, supply, setup equipments and operation, And the civil works of the project are applied by Al-Faw state company, and the total cost of the project was 18 million dollars with a time table of 14 months.
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