page_title: Al Başrah Oil Terminal
hierarchical_section_title: Al Başrah Oil Terminal
caption_attribution_description: English: NORTH ARABIAN GULF (October 4, 2008) – Iraq’s Khawr Al Amaya Oil Platform (KAAOT) just after sunrise. Combined Task Force (CTF) 158 is specifically responsible for ensuring the security of Iraq’s KAAOT and Al Basra oil terminals in support of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1790. CTF 158 operates jointly with Iraqi Navy sailors and marines, trained by members of the Navy Transition Team based in nearby Umm Qasr. Over three quarters of Iraq’s GDP is generated from the oil that flows through these terminals.
context_page_description: Al Başrah Oil Terminal, commonly referred to as ABOT, is a strategically critical Iraqi offshore, deep sea crude oil marine loading terminal that lies approximately 50 km southeast of the Al-Faw Peninsula in the Persian Gulf. Along with its sister terminal, the Khawr al ‘Amīyah Oil Terminal, the terminals provide the principal point of export for more than eighty percent of Iraq's gross domestic product as of 2009, and all of the oil from the southern Başrah refinery.
  Crude oil produced for export from the southern Iraqi oilfields is carried through three 48 in diameter pipelines to the southern tip of the al-Faw Peninsula and then undersea to the ABOT platform. One 48 in and two 32 in pipelines supply the KAAOT platform.
  The ABOT facilities can transfer up to 3 million barrels of oil per day when all four of its supertanker berths operate at maximum capacity and has a maximum draft of 21 m. Three single-point mooring systems were added in 2012, each with a design rating of 800 thousand barrels of oil per day, and two more SPMs are planned to be operational by 2013 to increase total loading capacity to 6.4–6.6 Mbbl of oil per day.
context_section_description: Al Başrah Oil Terminal, commonly referred to as ABOT, is a strategically critical Iraqi offshore, deep sea crude oil marine loading terminal that lies approximately 50 km (31 mi) southeast of the Al-Faw Peninsula in the Persian Gulf.  Along  with its sister terminal, the Khawr al ‘Amīyah Oil Terminal (ميناء خور العمية, alt. Khor al-Amaya Oil Terminal, KAAOT), the terminals provide the principal point of export for more than eighty percent of Iraq's gross domestic product as of 2009, and all of the oil from the southern Başrah refinery.
  Crude oil produced for export from the southern Iraqi oilfields is carried through three 48 in (1.2 m) diameter pipelines to the southern tip of the al-Faw Peninsula and then undersea to the ABOT platform.  One 48 in (1.2 m) and two 32 in (0.81 m) pipelines supply the KAAOT platform.
  The ABOT facilities can transfer up to 3 million barrels (480,000 m³) (Mbbl) of oil per day when all four of its supertanker berths operate at maximum capacity and has a maximum draft of 21 m (69 ft). Three single-point mooring systems (SPM) were added in 2012, each with a design rating of 800 thousand barrels (130,000 m³) (kbbl) of oil per day, and two more SPMs are planned to be operational by 2013 to increase total loading capacity to 6.4–6.6 Mbbl (1,020,000–1,050,000 m³) of oil per day.
  The KAAOT facility has a shallower depth and its two berths can accommodate Suezmax oil tankers with capacities up to 1 Mbbl (160,000 m³) or 200,000 DWT and has the capacity to transfer about 240 kbbl (38,000 m³) of oil daily.
caption: An aerial view of KAAOT just after sunrise
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