Oil cargo from Iraqi Kurdistan arrives in Croatia

Reuters/Zagreb

A delivery of crude oil from Iraqi Kurdistan has arrived at Croatia’s Adriatic sea port of Omisalj, a Croatian government source said yesterday, confirming a report by daily newspaper Jutarnji List late on Saturday.

“A tanker with 80,000 cu m of crude oil has arrived at the Omisalj terminal and it should be unloaded on Sunday”, the Jutarnji List said on its website, citing a source from the state-owned oil transport operator Janaf. No one at Janaf was available to comment.

“Four days ago we had an announcement about a delivery of crude oil from (Iraqi) Kurdistan. It was bought by Hungary’s (oil firm) MOL and the oil is for their refinery. All the documentation is in order, so I see nothing contentious in this shipment,” the source was quoted as saying. “It is indeed crude oil for MOL’s refining business,” the government source said yesterday.

Reuters reported on Friday that Iraqi Kurdistan had delivered its third major cargo of crude oil from a Turkish port and that a fourth was sailing to Croatia, showing the autonomous region is finding more buyers.