Loading at Turkey's Ceyhan oil terminal stopped
The loading of crude tankers has been halted at Turkey's Mediterranean oil export terminal in Ceyhan after a fire in southeastern Turkey on a pipeline from Iraq's Kirkuk oilfields knocked out flows, shippers said on Monday, Reuters reports.
Between five and 10 tankers were waiting to load at Ceyhan, the shippers said. Storage tanks currently have about 500,000 barrels of oil, not enough to meet the tankers' capacity, they said.