Following news of an oil export shutdown in Iraqi Kurdistan, Norwegian oil firm DNO International has confirmed to the Reuters News Agency that production at its Tawke field is now back to around 50,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day after a pipeline malfunction on Sunday.
“There was a stoppage which lasted for about 26 hours, but now we are back again at full production,” said DNO spokesman Tom Bratlie. “We have had to live with some downtime since we started producing again in February.”
The Kurdistan Regional Government said Iraq’s North Oil Company had “serious technical difficulties” with its main export pipeline, which carries about 100,000 barrels of crude per day, and labelled “false” reports that exports had been deliberately suspended.
