Kurdish oil pipeline nearly completed, Minister

[Aslan]

BAGHDAD/ Aswat al-Iraq: Kurdish Natural Resources Minister Ashti Horami announced that the Kurdish oil pipeline will be completed soon, as reported by Kurdish governmental electronic sit.

In a meeting in Manchester, Britain, on the security of energy, he expected that the pipeline will be put into operation at the end of this year.

He added that the exports will reach one million b/d by 2015 and two million barrels in 2019.

He described the relations with Turkey as "consumer and partner", not only a "channel to export oil".