Iraq plans to build a new pipeline that will ship oil from Kirkuk's oilfields to the Ceyhan port in Turkey, the oil ministry said on Sunday.
Tehran and Baghdad have reached an agreement on a plan to export oil from Kirkuk in northern Iraq to Iran, according to a new announcement by Iraqi Oil Minister Jabar al-Luiebi.
Iran has inaugurated a gas pipeline which officials say will dispense with supplies from neighboring Turkmenistan to northern Iranian provinces, especially in the winter when demand spirals out of control.
Thousands of people have held a rally in Los Angeles, California, as part of nationwide protests against a controversial oil pipeline in North Dakota.
Gunmen Friday shot dead 18 experts -- most of them Iranians -- who were working on a gas pipeline from Iran to Iraq northeast of Baghdad, police officers said.
Libyan protesters demanding more rights for the country's Amazigh minority shut off Libya's sole natural gas export pipeline to Italy on Monday, a union official said.