Posted on 02/06/2023 7:48:56 AM PST by FarCenter
Operations at Ceyhan, a major oil export terminal on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, have been suspended as a precaution. Ceyhan receives crude from two major cross-border pipelines — the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline carries oil from fields offshore Azerbaijan across Georgia to Turkey's Mediterranean coast, while the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline transports oil from northern Iraq. A spokesman for northern Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government said operations at Ceyhan will resume once an inspection has been finalised. Turkish pipeline operator Botas said neither pipeline has been damaged.
The Ceyhan terminal exported just over 1mn b/d of crude in January, according to Vortexa. This included around 665,000 b/d of Azeri crude through the BTC pipeline and 395,000 b/d of Iraq's Kirkuk blend through the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline.
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This earthquake is going to have huge ramifications. Get ready for another round of refugees invading Europe.
Multiple earthquakes—one after the other.
Lots of damage.
Get ready for another round of refugees invading Europe.
It sounds like northwest Syria was hit very hard and this is the last refuge for about 3-4 million Syrian rebels on the border with Turkey. I would expect more of them will leave as they did not have much there to begin with in the way of infrastructure.
To put it in perspective, it dropped the castle in Gazientep that had stood for 2200 years.
Yep, I've noted that in several threads.
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