{"id":368343,"date":"2025-08-12T13:46:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=368343"},"modified":"2025-08-12T13:46:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:46:53","slug":"syria-iraq-explore-reviving-kirkuk-baniyas-oil-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=368343","title":{"rendered":"Syria, Iraq explore reviving Kirkuk\u2013Baniyas oil pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Baghdad-SANA\u2013 Syrian Energy Minister Mohammad Bashir met in Baghdad on Tuesday with Iraq\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister for Energy and Oil Minister Hayan Abdul Ghani to discuss strengthening bilateral cooperation in the energy sector.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/112.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-368345 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bashir highlighted Syria\u2019s need for oil imports and proposed linking oil pipelines between the two countries, noting the old Kirkuk\u2013Baniya\u2019s line has reached the end of its service life. Abdul Ghani expressed Iraq\u2019s interest in reactivating the line and suggested evaluating whether to rehabilitate it or build a new one, citing regional events affecting Iraq\u2019s oil exports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Syrian Deputy Energy Minister Ghiyath Diab said pumping stations along the route are largely destroyed and require full rehabilitation, adding that restoring the old line alongside building a new one would be economically beneficial. The talks also covered laying optical cables parallel to the oil lines and linking them with Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both sides agreed to form joint technical teams and a main coordination committee, with Diab overseeing the follow-up.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-368343 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/114.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/114.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/115.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/115.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tuhama al-Saidi -Mananr Salameh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baghdad-SANA\u2013 Syrian Energy Minister Mohammad Bashir met in Baghdad on Tuesday with Iraq\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister for Energy and Oil Minister Hayan Abdul Ghani to discuss strengthening bilateral cooperation in the energy sector. Bashir highlighted Syria\u2019s need for oil imports and proposed linking oil pipelines between the two countries, noting the old Kirkuk\u2013Baniya\u2019s line has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":368344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,23,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-news-bar","category-syria-and-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368349,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368343\/revisions\/368349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/368344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}