Iraq on Thursday resumed oil exports to Turkey hours after a pipeline, running from Kirkuk in northern Iraq to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, was attacked, officials said. "Pumping from Kirkuk to Turkey resumed Thursday afternoon after the Turkish side used a back-up system," Hussein Gholam, the assistant general manager of Iraq's state-run North Oil Company, said in a statement. He said a Turkish technical team had diverted oil flow to an alternative pipeline after exports were halted earlier in the day following an "act of sabotage" in Turkey. "They are now repairing the damage caused to the pipeline," dpa quoted Gholam as saying.
