ANKARA, Sept 15 (Reuters) - A survey of an Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline is complete and the pipeline will soon be "technically" ready for operation, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said.
Turkey halted flows on Iraq's northern oil export route on March 25 after an arbitration ruling by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) ordered Ankara to pay Baghdad damages for unauthorised exports by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) between 2014 and 2018.
Turkey then started maintenance work on the pipeline, which goes through a seismically active zone and which it says has been damaged by floods.
"As of today, the independent surveyor completed their survey and now they're preparing their report," Bayraktar said without mentioning a date for resumption of oil flows, in a press briefing held on Thursday, but that was embargoed by the ministry until Friday. (Reporting by Can Sezer; Editing by Daren Butler and Miral Fahmy)
