IRAQ: FIREFIGHTERS WORK TO STEM FIRE WHICH BROKE OUT ON AN OIL PIPELINE NEAR BAIJI

Record ID: 344928

  • Title: IRAQ: FIREFIGHTERS WORK TO STEM FIRE WHICH BROKE OUT ON AN OIL PIPELINE NEAR BAIJI
  • Date: 18th September 2003
  • Summary: BAIJI NEAR TIKRIT, IRAQ (SEPTEMBER 18, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. TRACKING SHOT: SMOKE ON HORIZON 0.04 2. FIRETRUCK AND FIREMAN ON ROAD AT SCENE 0.10 3. CU'S: FIRE, SMOKE, ELECTRICAL PYLONS BEHIND 0.18 4. FULL FRAME BLACK SMOKE, PAN UP 0.33 5. GREEN DUMP TRUCK AT SCENE, DUMPING SAND ON FIRE 0.40 6. BULLDOZER AT SCENE (2 SHOTS) 0.53 7. GROUP OF OIL WORKERS, POLICE AT SCENE 0.57 8. CU: FACE OF IRAQI POLICEMAN 1.00 9. TWO MEN CONFER AT SCENE 1.04 10. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BAHAA HASSAN, COMMANDER OF THE FIREFIGHT UNIT OF NORTHERN OIL COMPANY SAYING: "You see this open area, we don't know. There is no security here. Also the policemen, they do their efforts, but you see, it's a large distance. A huge amount of distance. So many kilometres. They cannot cover such a situation." 1.23 11. MORE OF FIRE WITH PEOPLE AT SCENE (3 SHOTS) 1.35 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 3rd October 2003 13:00
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  • Location: BAIJI NEAR TIKRIT, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVACDBD0PSZL47C9BNONCSYXFK4H
  • Story Text: Fire breaks out on oil pipeline in Northern Iraq.


    Firefighters worked to stem a fire which broke out
    on an oil pipeline in Northern Iraq on Thursday (September
    18). The pipeline near Baiji is one of several 20-inch
    lines from the Kirkuk oilfields that, according to one
    firefighter, feeds the main export line to Turkey.

    Iraqi police were on the scene eight kilometres from
    Baiji to investigate whether or not the fire was another in
    a series of sabotage attacks that have hampered post-war
    Iraqi oil sales.

    The commander of the firefight unit of the Northern Oil
    Company said it was impossible to secure the area:
    "You see this open area, we don't know. There is no
    security here. Also the policemen, they do their efforts,
    but you see, it's a large distance. A huge amount of
    distance. So many kilometres. They cannot cover such a
    situation."
    Iraq's northern Kirkuk exports have remained close
    since the war. The U.S. military said this week it hoped to
    see the line reopened by about mid-October.

    Baghdad has relied on deliveries from its southern
    fields for vital export revenues to help finance post-war
    rebuilding efforts.

    The northern pipeline runs southeast from the Kirkuk
    oilfields to the Baiji refinery before pumping northwest
    across the Turkish border to the Ceyhan export terminal on
    the Mediterranean.


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