Explosion Strikes Oil Pipeline in Iraq

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Explosion Strikes Oil Pipeline in Iraq

By BASSEM MROUE
The Associated Press
Thursday, April 5, 2007; 7:06 AM

BAGHDAD -- A bomb struck an oil pipeline Thursday, cutting off supplies and
causing a huge fire in southern Iraq near the border with Kuwait,an official
said.

The pipeline carries oil from surrounding fields to storage tanks in Basra for
export to the Gulf region, according to the official with the South Oil Co.
But he said the tanks were full and export supplies had not yet been affected.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized
to speak to the media, said the explosion occurred about midnight and the fire
raged for hours before it was extinguished in the afternoon.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/05/AR2007040500361.html

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Also: FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, April 5 - Reuters

[SpiralHawk]

1. "They hate us for our freedoms. Smirk, smirk, smirk." - Commander AWOL

"This pipeline bombing is an outrage. It may very well impact the Massive
Oil Profits collected by my republicon Oil Cronies. It will not stand.

"I am heading out to the golf course immediately to take action."

- Commander AWOL

[acmavm]

2. Oil running on the ground surely bothers the bush** criminal

cabal far more than blood running in the streets.

[TheWatcher]

3. Iran Did It.

Invade Now.

(Just beating our Criminal Government To The Punch.)

[Jacobin]

4. Its very odd that they would report this one incident

Here's a website where all attacks on oil facilities in Iraq are cataloged.

http://www.iags.org/iraqpipelinewatch.htm



Here's a list of the last couple of months:

2007
387. January 10 - Up to 50 Iraqi militants armed with RPG-7 as well as light and medium weapons ambushed a large force of the Oil Protection Force, whom were transporting security equipment. Sources indicated that more than 20 of the Oil Protection Force personnel were killed and more than 20 injured.
388. January 11 - An oil pipeline of the Northern Oil Company was sabotaged and breached near Kirkuk and the oil spill set ablaze.
389. January 21 - Insurgents assaulted guards protecting an oil facility, seized their weapons and vehicles and set an oil well on fire in the town of Dibs.
390. January 22 - An oil technician - an employee of the Northern Oil Company Ltd - was shot to death in the northern city of Mosul.
391. January 23 - A roadside IED detonated near a minibus carrying workers of the Northern Oil Company Ltd while travelling to the oil-refinery city of Baiji, 112 miles north of Baghdad. There were no casualties.
392.February 11 - Gunmen killed Lieutenant Colonel Jamal Mohammad, the chief of serious crimes office of the Oil Protection Force at Bayji and wounded two of his guards. Reports claimed that two of the attackers were also killed.
393. February 12 - Insurgents placed two IEDs on a well of the Northern Oil Company near Kirkut. The explosions destroyed the well and set the oil ablaze.
394. February 13 - Insurgents attacked and destroyed a road tanker with of the National Guard on the highway near Al Buwarah. The driver was killed and a passenger wounded.
395. February 19 - Iraqi insurgents deployed a suicide bomber in a road tanker north of Baghdad.
396. February 20 - Six people were killed and 105 injured after a suicide IED detonated his device in a fuel tanker in the town of At Taji, north of Baghdad.
397. February 23 - A VBIED incorporated into a road fuel tanker exploded in a market in the town of Buhayrat al Habbaniyah in the province of Anba. The explosion killed 40 people and injured 64.
398. February 25 - Two labourers of an oil company were killed and one wounded by a roadside bomb in Kirkuk.
399. February 27 - A convoy of four road tankers carrying oil products was stopped shortly after it left the Bayji refinery by Iraqi militants. The militants shot and killed the drivers and burned the vehicles and the cargo.

[Javaman]

5. moron* will use this as his latest excuse as to why pump prises are up...

even though they have been going up for the past 3 weeks.

[Robbien]

6. Apperars that pipeline in northern Iraq can't stay open more than a day or two

Perhaps they reported this attack because it was the southern pipeline system. The northern one is full of sand and spent explosives most of the time anyway.

[Supersedeas]

7. Nothing to see here -- feed them more stories of coyotes in Quiznos

[VegasWolf]

8. Another bad day for Exxon/Halliburton! nt

[saigon68]

9. FREEDOM IS ON THE MARCH

[Roland99]

10. So that explains the $0.30 jump in gas prices this afternoon

I was on "E" so I stopped by a Kroger on my way home from work and it was JAMMED with cars. I called a buddy of mine and asked if we'd attacked Iran or something.