Iraq Keeps South Oil Pipeline Shut
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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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Country tries to keep low profile for northern export line, still vulnerable to sabotage attacks. LONDON  - Iraq plans to quietly resume sales of its Kirkuk crude for the first time since May, hoping
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KIRKUK, Iraq, Nov 2  - Iraqi oil exports to Turkey were halted after a series of attacks Tuesday, including a major strike on a pipeline network connecting wells west of Kirkuk with the main export pipeline and refineries further south, oil officials
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Saboteurs blew up an oil pipeline in southern Iraq early today in the latest attack targeting the countryâs crucial oil industry, police and oil officials said.
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Oil prices steadied on Friday,  attempting to end a five-day rout as an end to a three-week  uprising in the Iraqi city of Najaf was balanced against  renewed pipeline attacks.
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BASRA, Iraq Aug. 30, 2004 - Senior Iraqi oil officials said Monday that crude exports from the southern port of Basra were halted and would be delayed for perhaps a week because of attacks on pipelines.
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Eight oil pipelines feeding two oilfields in southern Iraq have been sabotaged in a bomb attack, Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV channel reported on Thursday.
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A group claiming links to rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said it was responsible for setting an oil well in south Iraq on fire and vowed to attack the main southern oil pipeline if US forces do not leave Najaf.
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Saboteurs blew up an oil pipeline in southern Iraq early Saturday, the latest attack targeting the country's crucial oil industry, police and oil officials said.
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Employees in the southern Iraq oil company announced that the country&#39;s south oil pipeline was attacked on Sunday at dawn, just few kilometers from a position where 8 oil pipelines were attacked on Wednesday.
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Japan will keep its troops in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said a day after insurgents fired explosives into a dining tent at a US Army base in the northern city of Mosul.
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BASRA, Iraq  - A pipeline exploded in Iraq's south  Rumaila oil field on Sunday, days after several pipelines in  the same area were sabotaged, a Reuters witness said.
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A senior oil industry official says saboteurs have blown up an oil export pipeline in southern Iraq. The explosion occurred about 30 miles southwest of Basra at a pipeline that connects oilfields with export storage tanks.
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Iraq is struggling to cope with the fiercest attack yet on its northern oil export network, while flows to southern export terminals have been steady after recovering from sabotage, officials say.
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Iraq's oil exports were still running at half their normal rate Sunday as instability due to an anti-U.S. uprising prevented the re-opening of a main pipeline feeding the country's terminals in the Gulf.
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SABOTEURS blew up a cluster of export pipelines in southern Iraq yesterday, reducing further the countryâs oil output, in the latest in a series of attacks targeting the oil industry.
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Saboteurs blew up Iraq's northern  export pipeline for the second week in a row on Saturday,  halting oil flows to Turkey's Ceyhan port, oil officials said.