Attacks on Iraqi pipelines, oil installations, and oil personnel

[Robbien]

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57. June 6 - attack on Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline. Iraq's Northern Oil Company (NOC) chief Ghazi Talabani said "Assailants detonated sound grenades on the pipeline Sunday at dawn (local time), 120 km (75 miles) east of Kirkuk, causing damage, and a loss of a huge quantity of oil." He said "The oil loss has been stopped and a group of technical experts are repairing the pipeline and the damage could be repaired by Tuesday night. Restarting production depends on the decision of the coalition and the oil ministry." NOC project manager Abdullah al-Rubai had earlier denied the attack.

58. June 6 - explosion on oil pipeline that feeds the Basra terminal near Basra on the Faw Peninsula's southern end. The blast slowed oil flow from 80,000 barrels per hour to 40,000.

59. June 9 - blast on oil pipeline near Bayji 155 miles (250 km) north of Baghdad cut supplies to the Bayji electric power station and according to Iraq Oil Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad forced a reduction of 400 megawatts, amounting to a 10% output cut on the national power grid.

60. June 9 - blast on Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline. Anwar Hamed Amin, chief of Iraqi Civil Defence Corps, said "A bomb placed 80 km (50 miles) west of Kirkuk exploded at 8:20am on the main pipeline to the Ceyhan terminal."

http://www.iags.org/n060904.htm

just posted the last four attacks, but the article lists all the attacks in the past year. There has been at least one attack almost every week, sixty attacks in one year.

[cliss]

1. I believe the Locals.......

have just figured out the Coalition's Achilles Heel.

They know that they can just keep blowing up the pipeline, and they will eventually succeed. Every time the pipeline is detonated, it costs $1 million to repair it. Halliburton has a contract to fix broken pipelines.

The Iraqis are patient. They can keep doing this for a long, long time. We are the ones who don't have time on our side.

Remember, this war is costing us $4.7 billion per month. How much is that per day? eh.... here we are....it's $156,666,666 million each day.

Our treasury will be wiped out before they are done blasting the pipeline.

[goforit]

2. Oh well...........Who would have thunk it.

:shrug: