Al Başrah Oil Terminal

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 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 , and all of the oil from the southern Başrah refinery.

Crude oil produced for export from the southern Iraqi oilfields is carried through three diameter pipelines to the southern tip of the al-Faw Peninsula and then undersea to the ABOT⁽⁾ platform. One and two pipelines supply the KAAOT⁽⁾ platform.

The ABOT facilities can transfer up to (Mbbl) of oil per day when all four of its supertanker berths operate at maximum capacity and has a maximum draft of . Three single-point mooring systems (SPM) were added in 2012, each with a design rating of (kbbl) of oil per day, and two more SPMs are planned to be operational by 2013 to increase total loading capacity to of oil per day.

The KAAOT facility has a shallower depth and its two berths can accommodate Suezmax oil tankers with capacities up to or 200,000 DWT and has the capacity to transfer about of oil daily. Provided by Wikipedia