Report: Trump Administration’s Iraq-to-Syria Oil Pipeline Will Take About Four Years & Cost at Least $15 Billion to Build

Report: Trump Administration’s Iraq-to-Syria Oil Pipeline Will Take About Four Years & Cost at Least $15 Billion to Build

Already a subscriber? Make sure to log into your account before viewing this content. You can access your account by hitting the “login” button on the top right corner. Still unable to see the content after signing in? Make sure your card on file is up-to-date. The Iraq-to-Syria oil pipeline the Trump administration is selling as a replacement to the Strait of Hormuz will take about four years to build and cost at least $15 billion. So…

Syria Weighs Economic and Strategic Gains of Proposed $15 Billion Iraqi Oil Pipeline

If current political momentum and media signals translate into reality over the next four years, a major new energy corridor could take shape by 2030, linking Iraq’s southern and northern oil fields to the Syrian port of Baniyas on the Mediterranean. Rather than reviving the historic Kirkuk–Baniyas line, recent details point to a completely new, integrated pipeline system anchored at Haditha in western Iraq. With an estimated cost of at least $1…