IRAQ: FIRE: SABOTEURS ATTACK GAS PIPELINE FEEDING INTO BAIJI PLANT IN NORTHERN IRAQ.

Record ID: 355731

  • Title: IRAQ: FIRE: SABOTEURS ATTACK GAS PIPELINE FEEDING INTO BAIJI PLANT IN NORTHERN IRAQ.
  • Date: 10th June 2004
  • Summary: (EU) BAIJI, NORTHERN IRAQ (JUNE 9, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/CU: FIRE AND SMOKE BILLOWING FROM GAS LINE (2 SHOTS) 0.24 2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) IRAQI POLICEMAN AT SITE SAYING: "Last night there was an explosion in the gas line at the city of Siniya, it broke the gas line that connects the city of Kirkuk with al-Siniya area." 0.36 3. G
  • Embargoed: 25th June 2004 13:00
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  • Location: BAIJI, NORTHERN IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA1KQIUTGIUJGB8ASJHSV455CKM
  • Story Text: Saboteurs have attacked a gas pipeline feeding into
    the Baiji plant overnight, an Iraqi energy offical has said.



    A bomb blew up a pipeline carrying oil from Iraq's
    Kirkuk fields to the country's biggest refinery on
    Wednesday (June 9) and is likely to disrupt supplies for
    several days, an oil ministry spokesman said.

    The spokesman said the pipeline attacked by saboteurs
    was not connected to Iraq's vital oil export line to
    Turkey, which is already out of action following previous
    attacks.

    He said Wednesday's fire was under control and said the
    flow from the oil fields to the refinery was likely to
    resume in about four to five days.

    Seperately, a fire at a power plant near the Baiji
    refinery, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, forced the
    plant to be shut down, reducing Iraq's power output by
    about 400 megawatt, or about 10 percent of the country's
    total 4,000 MW capacity, officials said.

    Saboteurs have repeatedly attacked Iraq's oil and gas
    infrastructure over the past year in an effort to undermine
    attempts to reconstruct the country's energy sector.

    Iraq has struggled to meet its target of pre-war export
    levels of two million barrels per day as its oil facilities
    have
    been hit by technical glitches as well security problems.

    bag/jrc




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