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July 17th, 2014 
David Schulberg Kirkuk lies on the disputed boundary between the northern Kurdish region and the rest of Iraq and is at the heart of a long-running dispute between Baghdad and Arbil, the Kurdish region center, over territory and natural resources.
Kurdish forces took control of production facilities at the Kirkuk and Bai Hassan northern fields on July 11, exploiting a power vacuum created by an Iraqi military withdrawal in the face of an Islamist insurgent offensive.
The Iraqi official told Reuters by telephone from Baghdad the Kurdish region had started to pump crude from one of the Kirkuk domes to the Khurmala dome, out of which the “Kurdish pipeline” runs, using an existing connection.
“They are using a pipeline which was originally used to send crude from (Iraq’s Kurdistan), but they have now reversed it (to use it by the Kurdish region),” the official said, estimating the quantity at around 20,000-25,000 barrels of oil per day.
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