Coll 30/216 'Development of oil supplies in the Middle East.' [‎58r] (116/131)

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II. IRAQ.; HAIFA PIPELINE
13# With the recession of the immediate war threat to the
Middle East and the opening of- the Mediterranean, the short-haul
area for Iraq, crude from Haifa has been considerably extended,
and there is every reason to expect that, with the gradual
re-occupation of the Continent, demands for Middle Eastern oil
will steadily increase.
14* The Iraq. Petroleum Company has expressed its willingness
to increase production at Kirkuk and to build a third pipeline
to the Mediterranean, thereby increasing the capacity of this
system from 4 to 7 million tons per annum*
15. The capacity of the Haifa Refinery, when the present
programme of extensions is completed about the middle of 1944*
will be nearly 4 million tons per annum, against a pipeline
capacity to Haifa of only 2 million tons per annum, the
balance under present arrangements being shipped from Tripoli (N)
to Haifa by sea.
16. The effect of these developments may be expressed very
roughly as follows, in millions of tons per annum:-
On completion
of new
pipeline
Haifa
Pipeline Capacity
Imports from Tripoli
Refinery Capacity
Crude for export
Tripoli
Pipeline Capacity
Refinery Capacity
Crude to Haifa
Fuel for export
Crude for export
Total for export
17. The present throughput c
by the fact that apart from a small local topping plant, naixu
is its only available outlet for crude oil* It is now pumping
at the rate of 1 , 000,000 tons of crude and up to 400,000 tons
of fuel oil, compared with a capacity of 2 , 000,000 tons of crude.
18- This oroject would call for some 95*000 tons of steel
and some 35,000 tons of miscellaneous construction and operation
eauipment. It is estimated that the total cost would amount
to £ 11 , 000,000 including $ 30 , 000,000 in dollar exchange.
Iraq Petroleum Company is prepared to bear tne whole c^st
provided the necessary financial approval in regard to dollar
expenditure is forthcoming. The drilling of additional wells
to provide two new supplies of crude oil will not present
tnfrr difficulties.
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