IRAQ: TWO OIL PIPELINES ARE SET ABLAZE IN BLASTS BY SABOTEURS NEAR BAIJI AND KIRKUK

Record ID: 344901

  • Title: IRAQ: TWO OIL PIPELINES ARE SET ABLAZE IN BLASTS BY SABOTEURS NEAR BAIJI AND KIRKUK
  • Date: 14th September 2004
  • Summary: (EU) NEAR BAIJI, IRAQ (SEPTEMBER 14, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF RAGING FIRE / PLUMES OF THICK BLACK SMOKE LEAPING INTO SKY (3 SHOTS) 0.17 2. CLOUDS OF BLACK SMOKE/ PAN TO TOWERS OF BAIJI POWER STATION (2 SHOTS) 0.39 3. WS: CLOUDS OF SMOKE COVERING AREA/ FIRE FIGHTERS 0.43 4. FIRE FIGHTERS WALKING AWAY FROM HIT PIPELINE 0.48 5. FIRE AND SMOKE BILLOWING INTO AIR 0.54 6. LV; FIRE ENGINES AT SCENE 0.59 7. SMOKE AND RAGING FIRE 1.05 8. SCU/WS: SMOKE AND FIRE FROM BLASTED OIL PIPELINE/ TOWERS OF BAIJI POWER STATION (2 SHOTS) 1.16 (EU) NEAR KIRKUK, IRAQ (SEPTEMBER 14, 2004) (REUTERS) 9. TRAVELLING SHOT OF PLUME OF BLACK SMOKE 1.22 10. VARIOUS: THICK BLACK SMOKE BILLOWING FROM PIPELINE (3 SHOTS) 1.46 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 29th September 2004 13:00
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  • Location: NEAR BAIJI AND NEAR KIRKUK, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA9O82KKSFECG8JB7QZM2MGZ73V
  • Story Text: Two oil pipelines have been set a blaze.


    A blast hit an oil export pipeline supplying fuel to
    a power station in Baiji, north of Baghdad, early on
    Tuesday (September 14).

    Engineers at the power station in Baiji said they had
    shut down the plant, knocking out power to the Iraqi town,
    because of a sabotage attack on the nearby pipeline.

    They said they were worried that the blaze from the oil
    pipeline would spread to the power station.

    Meanwhile, saboteurs blew up an oil pipeline in
    northern Iraq on Tuesday, halting exports to Turkey, an
    official from the North Oil Company said.

    Iraq had been exporting 200,000 to 300,000 barrels per
    day of Kirkuk crude through the pipeline, which acted as a
    back up after saboteurs blew up the main northern export
    pipeline on September 2.

    Firefighters said it would take four to five days to
    extinguish the blaze on the back up pipeline.

    Before the main export pipeline was blown up on
    September 2, Iraq was exporting 600,000 bpd to Turkey's
    Ceyhan port.

    An Islamist militant group claimed responsibility for
    the attack on the back up pipeline which a North Oil
    Company official said had halted Iraqi crude oil exports to
    Turkey.

    The previously unheard of 'Followers of Zarqawi Group'
    said in a statement posted on a Web site it had also blown
    up a pipeline in southern Iraq on Monday.

    The authenticity of the statement could not be
    verified. The group's name refers to Jordanian al Qaeda
    ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose Tawhid and Jihad Group has
    claimed responsibility for attacks and kidnappings in Iraq.

    Iraqis regularly complain about interrupted power
    supplies, saying that nearly 18 months after former Iraqi
    President Saddam Hussein's overthrow, U.S. authorities have
    still not managed to rebuild the country's electricity
    infrastructure.


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