Iraq Says Southern Oil Facilities ‘Very, Very Safe’
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Iraq’s southern oil export facilities, currently its only export outlet, were secure, with shipments now running at around 2.6 million barrels per day, Oil Minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi said on Wednesday...
All our exports now are from the Basra terminal in the south - and it’s a very, very safe area,” Luaibi told reporters ahead of an OPEC meeting. Iraq’s northern export pipeline, which connects to a Turkish terminal, has been out of action since March after a bomb attack...
Iraq Says Southern Oil Facilities ‘Very, Very Safe’
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I would think it prudent to treat this kind of statement with caution. Just on the face of it — the statement sounds like Bagdad Bob.