Turkey's state oil refiner Tupras imported two 140,000 ton cargoes and one 145,000 ton cargo to one of its oil import terminals, Tutunciflik, in September, data from Reuters AIS Live ship tracking and a shipping source showed.
The crude oil was lifted from the Egyptian port of Sidi Kerir, the end of the Sumed pipeline linking the Red Sea to the Mediterranean.
Tupras has been unable to insure its own tankers to lift Iranian crude starting from July and switched to Iranian-owned oil tankers.
Tupras also imported several cargoes of Saudi, Iraqi, Russian and Libyan Es Sider crude oil, according to the shipping source.
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Turkish imports of Iranian crude oil amounted to around 100,000 barrels per day in September.
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