Iraq calls for pipeline equipment supply bids

March 25, 2008
Iraq's Oil Ministry has invited companies to submit detailed designs and bids to supply equipment for the construction of two oil pipelines between Iraq and Iran, each 50-75 km long.

Eric Watkins
Senior Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 25 -- Iraq's Oil Ministry has invited companies to submit detailed designs and bids to supply equipment for the construction of two oil pipelines between Iraq and Iran, each 50-75 km long.

The two countries signed an agreement last November to build the lines, one to export about 100,000 b/d of Iraqi crude oil to Iran and the other to pump oil products from Iran to Iraq.

"The aim of the project is to export crude oil and import multiproducts through Shatt-al-Arab" waterway, the ministry said. The pipelines will link the Basra oil fields in southern Iraq with Iran's Abadan refinery.

Tender documents can be obtained from the ministry's Oil Projects Co.

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