OIL FROM IRAK
GREAT PIPE-LINE LAST SECTION OPENED £10,000,000 SCHEME By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received October 15, 9.45 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 15 A pipe-line 620 miles long was opened yesterday. It stretches from the Irak oilfields through British mandated territory to Haifa, Palestine. This completes a £10,000,000 scheme to obtain oil from Irak without tanking it through the Suez Canal.- The line starts from Kirkuk, in art area administered by the Irak Petroleum Company. A double line of piping runs 150 miles into the desert of Haditha, where it branches, one line going through French mandated territory to Tripoli and the other to Haifa. The entire pipe-line has a total length of 1200 miles. It crosses the Tigris, the Euphrates and the Jordan. It is capable of taking 4,000,000 tons of oil a year. About 40 wells already are in action on the Irak field.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21932, 16 October 1934, Page 9
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