Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq (mnr.krg.org) - The scale of daily trucking operations in the Kurdistan Region related to activities in the oil and refining sectors is highlighted in a report entitled The Movement of Oil and Refined Products by Trucking in the Kurdistan Region, published today by the KRG Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR).
The report reveals that on any given day in the Kurdistan Region, an estimated 5,370 road journeys are undertaken by tankers in operations related to activities in the oil and gas sector.
Of those journeys, 3,745 are made by domestic fuel tankers and 1,625 by international tankers.
As the Kurdistan Region further develops the infrastructure to move oil and refined products via an enhanced pipeline network, trucking will continue to play a vital transitional role in the efficient performance of the oil and gas industry, thereby aiding the economic viability of the Kurdistan Region.
MNR estimates that with improvements to the Region’s oil transport infrastructure and the transition of the Region’s power stations to run on piped natural gas instead of trucked diesel, the number of daily tanker journeys will fall to 1,641 journeys by the 1st quarter of 2018.
MNR has compiled the factual information on trucking movements in the Kurdistan Region to aid public understanding and to correct some of the false claims made about trucking by some media organizations and politicians.
The statistics published today also provide a detailed breakdown of the reasons for the journeys that are undertaken daily by the tankers.
For example:
Refining at Kalak and Bazian Refineries
Oil Swaps with Local Traders for Diesel
International oil product purchases
* The KRG purchases and imports volumes of diesel, which are then trucked into the Region.
* Private traders also import oil products purchased internationally into the Region, for their own use.
* The transport of international product purchases accounts for 1,292 journeys daily.
Condensate and LPG
* Tankers transport condensate and LPG from the producing field at Khor Mor to factories and power plants, or into storage by KRG or in Turkey.
Injections to KRG Export Pipeline