Oil Exports Stop From Southern Iraq (again)

[maddezmom]

BASRA, Iraq - Oil exports from southern Iraq were halted Monday because a sabotage-induced electricity shortage prevented oil from being pumped into tankers, Iraqi and foreign oil officials said. Exports through the country's other export outlet in the north have been long interrupted due to pipeline sabotage.

A port official and an employee at the South Oil Co., which runs Iraq's southern oil fields, said pumping stopped at 7 a.m. Monday. Both men spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to media. They gave no further details.

An official with a shipping company in Dubai confirmed that exports from southern Iraq had ceased due to the power cut.

"Oil terminals have completely stopped exports from Basra and Khor al-Amaya," said Mohammed Hadi, head of Iraq Operation for Norton Lilly International. "Both terminals use the same power source."

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050822/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_oil

[Fleshdancer]

1. wow. this is expensive:

Hadi said the shutdown, which costs Iraq some $4.25 million per hour, would probably push up the price of oil while curtailing the chief revenue source for Iraq's government.

[magellan]

2. So the Iraqi gov't get $4.25M per hour when oil is flowing

What are they doing with all that money is what I'd like to know.

[Career Prole]

10. They put it in an envelope

and send it to "Halliburton c/o The White House"

[Barrett808]

11. Most of this money goes into numbered accounts in hot-money countries n/t

[beetbox]

12. "They" (There)

is no such thing as Iraqi Gov't. Completely controlled by US appointees.

Massive kickbacks. The money is being disappeared and is now sitting in offshore accounts.

[Javaman]

9. Honestly, does it really cost Iraq 4.25 mill? or does it cost mobil or...

exxon 4.25 mill? I think we know the answer to that.

[truthisfreedom]

3. i think the oil in Iraq is being pumped into neighboring countries' empty

wells where it can be pumped back out and sold later. i believe that is being done via a combination of re-routing pipelines and slant drilling. i believe the entire war was a ruse to create the havoc necessary to cover up this brazen theft of Iraq's oil. i believe this because of a consultant i saw a video of who had worked for a Florida television station and had tapped into the military infrared satellites and was providing coverage and analysis of weather conditions in Iraq for that station, (he was ex-military and built his own gear to pick up the satellite images) and he pointed out on one of his interviews that an oil pipeline headed into Kuwait from Iraq was active and had been active for some time.

i also believe this because Kuwait was accused of slant drilling by Saddam prior to the first Iraq war, and Saddam invaded Kuwait to stop this theft of Iraqi oil.

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. I wouldn't doubt that for one second - Kuwait never did prove they

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were not slant drilling if I remember right

- and now

noone will likeley ever know with the oil-thirsty Murikkkans on BOTH sides of the Kuwait/Iraq border

and by the way

"4.25 million per hour"

ummmm

wouldn't one hour's loss pay for some pretty reliable generators for them pumping stations??

I mean

it's not like fuel is expensive over there . . :freak:

sumthing wrong with this story . .

[smoogatz]

6. Pumped into empty wells? Now there's a wacky theory, first thing in the

a.m. Stolen, yes. Loaded onto tankers and shipped out to China under cover of darkness with the money going directl into Chalabi's pocket, absolutely. But pumped into empty wells so it can be pumped out again? Why, pray tell?

[smoogatz]

5. B-b-b-but--

that there awl is sposed to pay for buildin' new Eye-racki schools and shoppin' malls and sech-like. What the hayl is goin' awn here?

[Roland99]

8. It's them damn freedom hatin' turrists

[sintax]

7. kick

[Jacobin]

13. If you think this is bad, check out this site:

Its a running account of all attacks on the Iraqi pipeline system since the beginning of the invasion.

It's pretty amazing.

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

Here's a little taste:

237. June 3 - 8 a.m. attack on pipeline between Kirkuk and the Dibis refinery, about 30 miles west.
238. June 8 - saboteurs blew up a main oil pipeline near Kirkuk.
239. June 8 - saboteurs opened connections between two pipelines near the Bayji refinery causing oil spill.
240. June 9 - 8:00 p.m. saboteurs blew up a major oil pipeline five miles east of the Bayji refinery.
241. June 15 - insurgents blew up a pipeline near Baghdad that transports crude oil between Bayji and Daura.
242. June 23 - attack on pipeline carrying crude from Kirkuk to Bayji, near al-Fathah.
243. June 25 - attack on oil pipleline leading from Kirkuk to Ceyhan.
244. June 24 - pipeline linking the southern fields around Basra to Daura. The attack took place near Yusifiyah.
245. June 28 - attack on pipeline in southwestern Baghdad.
246. June 29 - attack on a natural gas pipeline linking storage facilities in Yousfiyah, south of Baghdad, to a plant in Baghdad.
247. July 3 - attack on a key feeder pipeline that leads to the Daura refinery.
248. July 8 - mortar attack on the Daura oil refinery hit a pipeline attached to one of the reservoirs.
249. July 20 - attack on an oil pipeline that connects Bayji and Baghdad.
250. July 20 - 6:00 a.m. a roadside bomb exploded under the pipeline that goes from Kirkuk to the Daura refinery.
251. July 20 - late night attack on oil pipeline between Mahmoudiyeh and Latifiyehin in southern Iraq.
252. July 21 - insurgents incinerated an oil pipeline west of Samarra.
253. July 26 - two Iraqi security personnel were killed and three wounded by mortar fire near Bayji while guarding an oil pipeline.
254. July 28 - a bomb hit an oil pipeline conecting Bayji and Kirkuk. A gas pipeline that supplies Bayji power station was also damaged during the attack.
255. July 28 - a bomb on a railway line hit a train carrying oil products near Baghdad, causing a huge fire.
256. August 3 - an explosion damaged a pipeline used for shipping fuel to a Baghdad power plant north of the capital.
257. August 4 - 5:00a.m. three explosions set ablaze a pipeline near Kirkuk.



The Cheney administration has done really really great with energy policy.

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