Dragon Rising!27 Mar 2008 10:21
BASRA (Thomson Financial) - One of Iraq's two main oil export pipelines near
the southern city of Basra has been blown up by saboteurs, Samir al-Maksusi,
spokesman for the Southern Oil Company told Agence-France Presse, the French
news agency.
The pipeline transports crude oil from the Zubair oil field to the Al-Faw
storage facility from where it is exported, Maksusi said.
"The blast directly affects the exports," he said.
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