- Title: IRAQ: SABOTEURS BLOW UP OIL PIPELINE SOUTH EAST OF BAGHDAD.
- Date: 30th August 2004
- Summary: (W6) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (AUGUST 30, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS: PIPELINE ON FIRE, SMOKE BILLOWING FROM IT/ FIREFIGHTERS STRUGGLING TO PUT OUT FIRE. / U.S. ARMY OFFICER LIEUTENANT PRICE TOOMS NEAR BURNING (7 SHOTS) 0.40 2. WS: FIRE ENGINE ARRIVING IN SITE/ U.S. ARMY SOLDIERS AND PEOPLE NEAR BURNING PIPELINE. 0.46 3. WS: LIEUTENANT TOOMS SHAKING HANDS WITH FIRE CREW U.S. ARMY VEHICLES IN BACKGROUND. 0.50 4. FIRE ENGINE ON SITE/ SMOKE RISING FROM BURNING PIPELINE/ LIEUTENANT TOOMS WALKING PAST 0.57 5. SCU/CU: PIPELINE RAGING WITH FIRE BEING SPRAYED WITH WATER. (2 SHOTS) 1.09 6. WS: U.S. LIEUTENANT TOOMS STANDING GUARD. 1.14 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
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- Story Text: Saboteurs blow up an oil pipeline southeast Baghdad.
Saboteurs blew up an internal oil pipeline on the
edge of Baghdad on Monday (August 30) as ceaseless attacks
on the country's export and domestic network continue,
witnesses said.
Firefighters are trying to put out the pipeline fire in
the southeast New Baghdad district. A U.S. soldier on the
scene said the oil pipeline was attacked earlier in the
morning.
Saboteurs attacked another pipeline running to a
Baghdad refinery on Sunday and several other pipelines
forming part of the southern export network last week.
The attack last week on a complex of pipelines linked
to the southern Rumeila oil fields immediately shut down
the Zubayr 1 pumping station, forcing officials to use
reserves from storage tanks to keep exports flowing for
several hours.
An oil official said on Monday that Iraq's southern oil
exports are expected to remain reduced over the next five
days as engineers work on repairing sabotaged pipelines
linking oilfields to export storage tanks.
"Oil is still flowing from the fields to the terminals,
but at a reduced rate. Repairing the pipelines will take
around five days," said the South Oil Company official, who
declined to be identified.
Loadings at Gulf offshore platforms were running at 1.4
million barrels per day (bpd) on Monday, compared to the
same rate on Sunday and two million bpd a week ago,
according to a shipping agent monitoring the two southern
terminals.
Before the blast, exports from Iraq's southern
terminals on Sunday were running at a rate of 1.4 million
barrels per day, shipping agents said. That was up to 30
percent lower than last week, when 10 pipelines linking the
north and south Rumaila fields to storage tanks and a
pumping station were hit.
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