Three major Iraqi oil pipes attacked north of Baghdad -- Oil Ministry

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=705604

BAGHDAD, Feb 16 (KUNA) -- Gunmen attacked on Wednesday three main oil pipes that supply crude oil to Al-Doorah refinery here and Beji refinery in Salahuddin, official spokesman for the Iraqi oil Ministry Asem Jidah said.

He told KUNA that the oil pipe that feeds Beji refinery from Karkuk field exploded this morning causing large amounts of crude oil to leak in Tigris River.

He added that, at the same time, gunmen bombed another oil-pipe that transfers crude oil from Karkuk field to Beji refinery near Al-Riyadh area, indicating that both explosions caused huge fire.

He also added that an armed group bombed a major oil-pipe that transfers crude oil to Al-Doorah refinery here from Karkuk field north of the country.

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[cthrumatrix]

1. Iraq knows why we are there.... it's thier Oil. They have been here before

with other "occupiers".

[SpiralHawk]

2. You are responible for this, Mr. Bush

This is your war, your strategy, your ineptness as "commander in chief."

Maybe you have spent too much time winking at "Jeff Gannon" to notice, but you have made a total frikking mess of the Middle East. You are responsible for all this shit.

[leftchick]

4. I wonder just how pissed the oil companys are getting about now?

Chevron, BP, Shell all have contracts and I think Iraq is only spitting out a dribble or two each day. Cry me a river!

[bpilgrim]

3. it was sooooooooooo much cheaper with the UN skimming scam

:argh:

ah, those were the days, eh?

OUR radicals have totally fucked everything up :crazy:


http://news.globalfreepress.com

peace

[DainBramaged]

5. The BFEE took the Iraqi oil out of the world market with their

dirty little war and energy prices went through the roof. So goes the theory of attacking Iraq FOR the oil. They knew disrupting supply would pay back their minions in spades.

[jmatthan]

6. Both ways they win!!

eom

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. "let freedom reign!"

The supporters of the war figured they would have all the cheap oil they could burn as a result of victory. I hope the price of oil doubles.

[grumpy old fart]

8. These attacks are constant...nothing new....

2005
186. January 1 - attack on a pipeline from Kirkuk to Bayji.
187. January 1 - attack on a pipeline linking the southern cities of Karbala and Hillah, 46 miles south of Baghdad near the Musabayb power station.
188. January 7 - attack on gas pipeline 9 miles north of Tikrit.
189. January 8 - attack on an oil pipeline running from northern fields to Bayji in the Safra area, 43 miles southwest of Kirkuk. Two guard posts for an oil protection force were also blown up around the area and one guard was wounded.
190. January 8 - attack on a gas pipeline in the Fatha area near Bayji.
191. January 11 - 2:00am rocket attack on a gas pipeline that runs to Bayji near the Fatha production station.
192. January 11 - 6:30am attack on an oil pipeline that runs to Bayji in the Zegheitoun area, 35 miles southwest of Kirkuk. The pipeline had just been brought online on January 9th.
193. January 13 - 10:30pm attack on oil pipeline near Fatha.
194. January 14 - improvised explosive device detonated after midnight damaging an oil pipeline near Bayji and sparking a large fire.
195. January 14 - attack on a pipeline linking Kirkuk and the Daura refinery, near Samarra.
196. January 14 - rocket attack on pipeline complex near Fatha sparked large blaze.
197. January 17 - a bomb blew off a section of a pipeline in Fatha.
198. January 21 - 07:00am attack on pipeline in the al-Tharthar region 12 miles south of Samarra interrupted the flow of oil to the Bayji refinery.
199. February 2 - attack on oil pipeline connecting Bayji refinery to Daura refinery. The attack took place near Samarra.
200. Fabruary 5 - attack on a cluster of eight pipelines west of Samarra connecting the Bayji and Daura refineries.
201. February 6 - attack on pipeline carrying crude oil from Kirkuk to Bayji.
202. February 9 - attack on a gas pipeline before dawn in Fatha, about 15 miles north of Bayji.
203. February 9 - rocket attack on a pipeline linking Kirkuk to Bayji.
204. February 13 - 10:00pm attack on oil pipeline at the al-Dibbis oil field north of Kirkuk.
205. February 14 - another attack on oil pipeline at al-Dibbis.

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

[Supersedeas]

9. another catastrophic success - for the oily contractors working the lines

[leftchick]

10. Iraqi oil infrastructure hit by string of insurgent attacks

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/iraqunrestoil

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Four Iraqi oil pipelines were hit by insurgent attacks, said the oil ministry.

The oil-rich area surrounding Kirkuk lies around 250 kilometres (160 miles) north of Baghdad.


Another pipeline carrying oil from the north to Dura refinery in Baghdad was sabotaged in the same area, the ministry said, adding that oil had spilt into the Tigris River.



A fourth pipeline was sabotaged in the Bajwan area, northwest of Kirkuk, the ministry added.



An Iraqi boy looks at a wall of fire amid black smoke billowing from a sabotaged oil pipeline west of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Four pipelines were set ablaze when a bomb planted by saboteurs exploded.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)

[benburch]

11. Bush was right!

Looks like those free and fair elections fixed everything.

[whistle]

12. Where are those cowardly private security contractors being....

....paid $120,000 per month to protect against this?

[Dave Reynolds]

13. Any guesses

on how much per gallon this will jump our pump prices for this weekend?

I'm guessing 25 cents.

[BushSpeak]

14. Does the price per barrel include

the $200 some billion it's costing Bush & Co to secure the oil fields?

Anyone figured out how much a gallon would cost us with the price of the war added in? Oh, I almost forgot, that's payed for by taxes!

Just for the record, Bush signed a bill a week before the election giving major companies a $136 billion tax break. Guess who's left paying for the war?

[natrat]

15. freedom is on the march

now jeffy over here on your kinees