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When you consider that Halliburton/Kellogg, Brown, and Root were handed the contract outright based, so the guvmint says, on their unparalleled expertise in the field of repairing oil infrastructure, and in particular damage caused by war.
Iraq's oil production has been shut down for a week, and the CPA spokesman is getting quite snippy about it..."Iraq May Fail to Resume Oil Exports as Pipeline Repairs Delayed
As of 4:10 p.m. Baghdad time, repairs to two pipelines hit ``had not, repeat not, been completed, therefore no crude oil is being exported from Iraq at the moment,'' Dominic d'Angelo, a spokesman for the U.S.-led occupation authority in Iraq said in a statement received by e-mail.
"Can't run crude through a broken pipeline and still expect it to reach the other end,'' d'Angelo said, when asked about the likelihood of exports later in the day.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=a5i8HFGKxNE4&refer=home"Repairs were continuing as of 1210 GMT (0810 EDT). There are no crude oil exports at the moment, according to our contacts in the South Oil Company," said Dominic D'Angelo, spokesman for the U.S.-led administration in Basra.
He dismissed earlier reports that the pipeline had been repaired.
Exports could still resume on Sunday night if the repairs were completed, shipping agents said, but officials were unwilling to make a new forecast, given the unpredictability of the work and the remoteness of the site.
"Based on this information, anyone who says oil is currently being exported from the south is misinformed... I don't have any estimate of completion times or dates," D'Angelo told Reuters."
http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=5464396 Could it be because it's a cost-plus contract?
Or perhaps to give another boost to the price of oil?"BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi oil experts hope to resume partial crude oil exports this weekend and restore shipments fully by the end of next week following insurgent attacks that crippled the country's oil infrastructure. But uncertainty about the timing and permanence of the repairs - along with an oil workers strike in Norway, the world's third largest crude exporter - pushed U.S. oil prices higher.
Analysts warned that a continuation of such attacks, especially into the peak heating fuel season that begins around October, could have a dramatic impact on the world market at a time when spare production capacity is already tight."
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/8949621.htmThe engineers are saying it's bad because of bad valves in the pipelines, and not having the proper pumps, but KBR's supposed to be on top of that...they're the damned White House-approved experts, after all..."KBR's activities in support of the RIO mission... range from assessments, repair plan development, procurement, technical assistance and actual construction."
http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/cepa/iraq/faq.htm We are getting so robbed. Anybody for pipeline LIHOP?
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