- Title: IRAQ: SABOTEURS HAVE BLOWN UP THREE MAIN OIL PIPELINES
- Date: 3rd November 2004
- Summary: (U3) HAWAIJA, KIRKUK, IRAQ (NOVEMBER 2, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. LV SMOKE RISING FROM PIPELINE 2. SLV FIRE RAGING FROM PIPELINE , SMOKE BILLOWING FROM IT; PIPELINE ON FIRE/ CLOUD OF SMOKE; FLAMES RAGING/ SMOKE RISING 3. PIPELINE ON FIRE 1.07 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 18th November 2004 12:00
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- Location: KIRKUK, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA8CPWNT6T5WDYGNOHYBH7HOQTF
- Story Text: Saboteurs blow up three main oil pipelines in north
Iraq.
Saboteurs have blown up three main oil pipelines in
north Iraq, halting exports to Turkey and flows to
refineries, oil officials said on Tuesday (November 2, 2004).
Sabotage against oil facilities in north and central
Iraq have intensified in the past few weeks as U.S. forces
attacked Sunni Muslim cities where insurgents have support.
The first pipeline attack on Monday night destroyed a
section of the Iraq-Turkey export pipeline southwest of
Kirkuk.
It was followed by two further attacks, including one
in the Qoshqaya region northwest of the city on a pipeline
connected to the Bai Hassam oil field, officials said.
One official said they had cut off all flows for the
time being and that the Qoshqaya fire was covering an area
of approximately one square kilometre.
He said there was sufficient Iraqi crude held in
storage at Turkey's Mediterranean coast Ceyhan terminal for
tanker lifting to continue.
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