العوامل الجغرافية المؤثرة على مد و إنشاء و تشغيل خط أنابيب نقل النفط كركوك-جيهان

Abstract EN

The aim of the study is to discover the impact of the natural and human factors on establishing and running Kirkuk-Jihan pipeline on both sides, the Iraqi and Turkish.

It also aims at knowing the capacity of these factors in facilitating or slowing the oil movement through the pipeline, through studying the geological structure, the relief and climate and also the population, and their impact on the passage of the pipeline, since the time of its construction.

Besides, the study intends to show the present and future impact of those factors, in order to give a clear picture for the problems of the pipeline to find the suitable solutions.

The findings of the study show that Kirkuk- Jihan pipeline was influenced by a number of geographical factors, natural and human.

These factors have a negative influence on its running, specially from the Iraqi side.

This leads to the decrease of the exported amount, and sometimes to its complete stoppage for some months.