Kirkuk: Iraq’s North Oil Company announced that a station in Kirkuk, northern Iraq, received its first shipment of crude oil from Basra after completing rehabilitation work. The station’s operational capacity has been expanded, with the oil destined for a port in southern Trkiye.

According to Anadolu Agency, station manager Sarmad Mohammed stated that the K1 station began receiving its first crude shipments, transported by dozens of tankers from Basra. Unloading operations commenced immediately upon arrival. The station currently has a capacity of 90,000 barrels per day, with tankers continuing to arrive and unload on an ongoing basis.

Mohammed noted that the crude is transferred directly to storage tanks near the K1 station after unloading. Muhammad Abdul Rahim, the official in charge of the K1 tank field unit, explained that these tanks represent the second stage of the process and can hold hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil. He also mentioned that the unloading and transfer operations proceeded smoothly on the first day without any recorded obstacles.

According to Abdul Rahim, the crude will be pumped under official directives to the Saralo station northwest of Kirkuk and then to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, Adana, for export. Last month, Iraq’s North Oil Company resumed oil exports through Trkiye’s Ceyhan port, restarting crude flows from the Kirkuk fields after nearly three years of suspension.