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Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan's only oil refinery. After the 1991 uprising against the Baghdad regime, Saddam Hussein refused to provide petroleum to the Kurds, so they began to develop their own small oil fields. Deprived of parts and technology, Kurdish engineers recovered the necessary elements from abandoned factories and constructed Kurdistan's only oil refinery at a disused sugar factory. ..Sulaimaniya, Iraqi Kurdistan. 21/11/2002...Photo © J.B. Russell

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Iraqi Kurdistan's only oil refinery. After the 1991 uprising against the Baghdad regime, Saddam Hussein refused to provide petroleum to the Kurds, so they began to develop their own small oil fields. Deprived of parts and technology, Kurdish engineers recovered the necessary elements from abandoned factories and constructed Kurdistan's only oil refinery at a disused sugar factory. ..Sulaimaniya, Iraqi Kurdistan. 21/11/2002...Photo © J.B. Russell