Oil to be pumped from north Iraq as from today
Iraq, Economics, 8/13/2003

The American army announced yesterday that it was decided to start pumping oil in the main pipeline for exporting oil from northern Iraq to Turkey today and that the operation will take days before the possibility of resuming exports.

The commander of the engineers unit in the fourth contingent troops who is responsible for the infrastructure of oil sector in northern Iraq, Body Nicklson, said it is expected to start oil exports at a rate of 200,000 and 300,000 barrels a day from the northern fields and that the number will increase to 500,000 barrels a day by the end of the year.

On the other hand, eye witnesses and officials said that a pipeline transporting oil from Karkouk oil fields to al-Doura refinery in Baghdad was damaged yesterday because of a fire that lasted for three hours and happened because of looting operations.

Just two weeks before, the oil pipeline which extents from Karkouk fields to the refinery was exposed to fire near Beji.

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