IRAQ: FIRE BREAKS OUT WHEN A POOL OF OIL WAS SET ON FIRE NEAR TO AN OIL PIPELINE

Record ID: 344954

  • Title: IRAQ: FIRE BREAKS OUT WHEN A POOL OF OIL WAS SET ON FIRE NEAR TO AN OIL PIPELINE
  • Date: 5th November 2003
  • Summary: (EU) ZUMMAR AREA, 40 KM NORTH OF MOSUL, NORTHERN IRAQ (NOVEMBER 4, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. AV FIRE; SLV BLACK SMOKE POURING FROM FIRE; FLAMES (3 SHOTS) 0.31 2. AV HELICOPTER FLYING OVERHEAD IN THE BLACK SMOKE; FIRE; SLV FIRE ENGINE ATTENDING THE FIRE (5 SHOTS) 1.10 3. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL, MUZAHEM SADOUN SAYING "Those are oil pools on fire and not a pipeline fire. This is a continuation of the sabotage on oil installations." 1.31 4. SLV POLICE RUNNING NEAR SCENE OF FIRE; SLV FIRES 1.55 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th November 2003 12:00
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  • Location: ZUMMAR, NORTHERN IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVADHE4HGPKNLMYJN2HQMNBH3YFV
  • Story Text: A pool of oil was set on fire in northern Iraq.

    A fire broke out when a pool of crude oil was set
    alight near a pipeline north of the Iraqi city of Mosul on
    Tuesday (November 4).

    The pipeline, linking the Kirkuk oil fields to Turkey,
    has been shut due to damage from sabotage. Leaks from the
    pipeline had formed the oil pool.

    Thick black smoke poured from the fire as the fire
    crews attended.

    Muzahem Sadoun, a local government official in Zummar
    district, said the fire constituted another act of sabotage.

    "This is a continuation of the regular sabotage we have
    been saying," Sadoun said.

    An Iraqi oil ministry official said on Monday the
    export pipeline is unlikely to reopen this week as
    previously planned, and it could take up to three weeks to
    resume operations.

    Sabotage and looting have hampered Iraq's efforts to
    boost oil exports. The pipeline carried 800,000 barrels per
    day (bpd) of crude from Iraq's Kirkuk oil fields to
    Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. Iraq still exports
    around 1.3 million bpd from its southern terminal in Basra,
    a relatively secure area.


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