Tanker with Iraqi Kurdish crude cleared to unload cargo off Texas

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Tanker with Iraqi Kurdish crude cleared to unload cargo off Texas

BY ERWIN SEBA AND TERRY WADE
HOUSTON Mon Jul 28, 2014 3:27am EDT

(Reuters) - A tanker carrying crude oil from Iraqi Kurdistan was cleared by the U.S. Coast Guard to unload its cargo at sea off Texas on Sunday as a State Department official signaled Washington would not intervene to block delivery of the controversial crude.

Coast Guard officials went aboard the tanker United Kalavrvta on Sunday and verified the ship and crew's ability to safely offload the oil, a Coast Guard spokesman said.

The ship set sail from the Turkish port of Ceyhan in June with a load of crude oil supplied by a new pipeline from the Kurdish oilfields.

Trading sources in Texas, New York, London and Geneva have been unable to identify the buyer of the United Kalavrvta's cargo. The oil could go to any one of the many refineries located along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/28/us-usa-iraq-kurdishoil-idUSKBN0FW0K020140728

[unhappycamper]

1. This tanker represents the spoils of Operation Iraqi Liberation.

[DetlefK]

2. It would, if it were an iraqi tanker. But it's a kurdish one.

The Kurds possibly chose the US because they could sell the oil there with no questions asked.

[unhappycamper]

3. "Tanker with Iraqi Kurdish crude"

The tanker is from Iraq and is loaded with "Iraqi Kurdish crude" which prompted my Operation Iraqi Liberation comment.

[DetlefK]

4. I was refering to "spoils of war".

The US did not get that oil by scheming or with contracts. The connection between the invasion and this sale is pretty distant.

If they thought, they could get away with it, islamic libyan rebels would sell their crude to the US. Same situation.