Iraqi oil exports slow for repairs to pipelines
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BAGHDAD Iraq&#39;s southern oil exports are expected to remain reduced over the next five days as engineers work on repairing sabotaged pipelines linking oil fields to export storage tanks, an oil official said Monday.
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Crude oil exports from southern Iraq were stable at around 1.5 million barrels a day despite several recent attacks on pipelines, a South Oil Company official said.
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Crude futures in New York settled 1.4 percent lower Monday, as Iraq&#39;s resumption of some oil exports gave cause for mild profit-taking.
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Oil prices held just below the $47 mark on Monday as Iraq resumed exports from both its northern and southern outlets after lengthy disruption, despite fierce fighting in the holy city of Najaf.
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Authorities kept a main oil pipeline in  southern Iraq shut on Sunday rather than risk it being  attacked, restricting the country's exports to half normal  levels, a South Oil Official said.
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BAGHDAD - Oil exports from southern Iraq have been brought to a complete halt, a senior oil official said today, following a spate of pipeline attacks launched by insurgents trying to undermine the volatile nation&#39;s interim government.
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Oil prices held just below the &#36;47 mark on Monday as Iraq resumed exports from both its northern and southern outlets after lengthy disruption, despite fierce fighting in the holy city of Najaf.
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Iraq&#39;s northern oil exports were halted Wednesday following a series of massive attacks on Iraq&#39;s pipeline network linking northern oil fields in Kirkuk to Turkey.
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BAGHDAD  - Sabotage has failed to hurt Iraq&#39;s oil exports, Iraqi Oil Minister Thamer Abbas Ghadbane said, though he acknowledged that attacks had hurt oil distribution to domestic markets.
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Export flows restored in south as US-backed Iraqi forces are deployed to protect oil facilities. BAGHDAD  - Authorities reopened the main export pipeline in southern Iraq on Monday after deploying
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Sabotage has paralyzed oil operations  in Iraq's north, forcing a suspension in refining while export  flows remain idle, oil officials said on Monday.
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Iraqi insurgents destroyed a northern oil export pipeline Tuesday, dealing a severe blow to the nation&#39;s crippled economy, and Iraqi officials said two car bombs and gunbattles across the country left at least 12 Iraqis dead.
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Crude oil futures fell for a third session, dropping as low as $45.35 a barrel, as increased Iraqi shipments signaled that supplies may be adequate to meet global demand.
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Exports of crude have resumed from oil fields in the north and south of Iraq, driving down prices on global markets overnight. After going just shy of $US50 a barrel at the end of last week, the key oil futures
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Oil exports from southern Iraq have grounded to a complete halt because of a spate of attacks on pipelines. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a senior Iraqi official from South Oil Company said oil flows
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Oil exports from southern Iraq have been brought to a complete halt, a senior oil official said Monday, following a spate of pipeline attacks launched by insurgents trying to undermine the nation's interim government.    Also Monday, firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr visited the Imam Ali Shrine in the city of Najaf for the first time since his militia left the holy site on Friday under a peace deal to end three weeks of fighting with U.S...
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Iraq's oil exports rose 9.2 percent last year, the Oil Ministry announced Thursday, largely because improved security allowed pumping to resume through a pipeline from northern oil fields.