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From correspondents in Baghdad October 16, 2003 AN explosion damaged an oil pipeline in northwest Iraq today, causing a fire and further hampering Iraq's oil export capabilities, an Oil Ministry official said. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the explosion ripped open part of the main pipeline running from the northern oil fields to the Doura oil refinery and the Mussayab power plant. "This means the shortage in the supply from the strategic pipeline will be compensated by supply from the southern fields until the pipeline is repaired," he said. He said damage was yet to be assessed,...

Upping the ante in its race with China to secure Russian energy supplies, Tokyo has offered Moscow a $7 billion financial package to build an oil pipeline to the Pacific instead of a rival project to northeast China, the Financial Times reported Tuesday. Quoting an unidentified Japanese energy official, the FT said Tokyo is offering $5 billion to support construction of the 3,800-kilometer pipeline from eastern Siberia to the Pacific port of Nakhodka and another $2 billion to help develop Siberian oil fields and provide low-interest loans. A Japanese Foreign Ministry official in charge of Russian affairs, however, denied that...

<p>Your car could be running on gasoline made from Iraqi oil.</p> <p>ChevronTexaco and ConocoPhillips both imported Iraqi crude to California in August, according to a filing Tuesday by the Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the U.S. Department of Energy.</p>

An explosion ripped open an Iraqi oil pipeline today in the latest act of sabotage to hit the industry. “There was an explosion, sabotage,” said Ghazi al-Talibani, a worker for the North Oil Company, which operates the pipeline and huge oil fields around Kirkuk. The pipeline that was attacked carried oil from Zab to Kirkuk. The blast occurred at 7pm on Friday, and the fire was only extinguished at 8.30am today, said firefighter Ismail Hassan. He said flames were 40 metres high. Paul Bremer, the US civilian administrator for Iraq, has said the country is losing seven million dollars a...

Police flee as Saddam loyalists fuel city revolt By Patrick Cockburn in Baiji 06 October 2003 Iraqis shouting pro-Saddam Hussein slogans have staged an uprising in the important oil refining city of Baiji, burning down the mayor's office, fighting with American troops and forcing local police to flee. About a thousand people, some holding pictures of Saddam Hussein, were in a stand-off with American troops last night, with tanks surrounding the police station in the city, 160 miles north of Baghdad. Loyalty to the ousted president, who is still being sought by Allied troops, is strong in the Sunni Muslim...

The United States military has deployed five teams of 10 airborne snipers to defend Iraq's northern oil pipelines from acts of sabotage by forces loyal to ousted president Saddam Hussein. Sergeant Brian Stinson said final modifications were being made to Blackhawk UH-60 helicopters, before snipers from the elite Tiger Force could begin patrols along the crucial oil supply lines. "There is so much area to cover that it requires precision fire, we're on call for 24-hours a day and can be airborne within 30 minutes," he said. Protection of Iraq's northern pipelines, which stretch 500 kilometres to Turkey and almost...

Russia challenging Saudi Arabia’s dominance in world energy market Oil will be high on the agenda at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s weekend summit meeting with George W. Bush at Camp David ­ Russian oil for US consumers, to reduce dependence on Saudi Arabia. Across the globe in Beijing, Putin’s prime minister, Mikhail Kasyanov, this week haggled with his Chinese counterpart, Wen Jaibao, on building a 2,400-kilometer, $2.5 billion oil pipeline from Siberia to China, which is crying out for energy to fuel its burgeoning economy. Saudi oil may be far cheaper to produce, but a steady supply from Russia is...

Desert Tribal Chief had 1.6 million in US $100 bills locked away in suitcases for Al Qeada use..

An explosion along the main oil pipeline from Iraq to Turkey triggered a large fire early Thursday near the northern Iraqi town of Bayji, witnesses said. The explosion occurred about dawn just north of Bayji, north of Baghdad, the witnesses said. The cause of the blast could not be immediately determined and the extent of damage was unclear. Witnesses said vehicles of the Iraqi oil ministry had rushed to the scene.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- An explosion along the main oil pipeline from Iraq to Turkey triggered a large fire early Thursday near the northern Iraqi town of Bayji, witnesses said. The explosion occurred about dawn just north of Bayji, about 120 miles north of Baghdad, the witnesses said. The cause of the blast could not be immediately determined and the extent of damage was unclear. Witnesses said vehicles of the Iraqi oil ministry had rushed to the scene.

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq (news - web sites)'s battered oil industry is managing to produce 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd), the top US official in the occupied nation said. "Yesterday we produced 1,624,000 barrels of oil. We've been averaging about 1.5 million barrels a day for the last 10 days," Paul Bremer told reporters here Sunday. The chief executive of Iraq's oil ministry, Thamir Ghadhban, said Tuesday that the country's oil production capacity had increased to nearly two million (bpd). He said at least one million bpd of sustainable export capacity would be "achieved very soon". The Iraqi oil...

BEIJING - China has sent a high-powered delegation to Russia to rescue a US$2.5-billion (S$4.4-billion) oil pipeline that risks being abandoned over environmental concerns and a rival Japanese project favoured, state media said yesterday. If the project fails, it could hurt bilateral relations, the China Daily said. The Chinese delegation, which left for Russia on Thursday, is headed by Mr Ma Kai, director of the National Development and Reform Commission. It also includes Mr Ma Fucai, chairman of PetroChina. The 2,400-km pipeline project, linking Siberian oilfields to the north-east Chinese city of Daqing, ran into trouble early this month after...

<p>KIRKUK, Iraq &#8212; Saboteurs struck a critical oil pipeline in northern Iraq yesterday, the latest in a series of attacks that have halted the country's oil deliveries to Turkey at an estimated cost of $7 million a day.</p> <p>Adel al-Qazzaz, director general of the Northern Oil Co., said the line attacked yesterday had carried 35,000 barrels a day from the Jabour oil field 20 miles southeast of Kirkuk to the main pipeline that originates in the northeastern Iraqi city.</p>

Kirkuk, Iraq-AP -- Another oil pipeline in Iraq has been sabotaged. The line was set on fire at a valve, sending huge flames and clouds of smoke into the air. Four firefighting teams have brought the flames under control. The line southeast of the city of Kirkuk has been shut down. It had been carrying 35-thousand barrels a day from an oil field to the main pipeline that originates in Kirkuk. There's been damage along several hundred feet of the line. U-S officials have said Iraq is losing (m) millions of dollars a day because of such sabotage.

One of Africa's most ambitious - but typically controversial - oil projects will come to fruition this month, when Chad begins pumping oil for export via Cameroon. The total cost of extracting the oil from Chad and piping it to Cameroon is estimated at $3.7bn (£2.2bn), one of the biggest investments ever made in the region. When production gets up to full speed next year, this one project alone is expected to account for 45-50% of Chad's national budget. The project is in the final stages of testing, Esso Chad's spokesman Miles Shaw told BBC News Online, with the first...

I've been going over google trying to find information about the status of the oil pipeline to be built in cameroon and chad (never thought I'd use that word again), but I keep getting only stuff from left wing communist and socialist groups and there propaganda, I don't know how accurate they are in this, but I would hate to use them as sources for my MBA project. Any help from fellow freepers is appreciated.

Mon September 8, 2003 11:03 AM ET By Saul Hudson TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's oil pipeline to Turkey will not export oil for at least five more weeks, a top U.S. Army official in the region said, further hampering efforts to revive the stricken post-war economy. "We've had a spike in these attacks over the last three weeks," Col. Robert Nicholson, head of engineers for the Fourth Infantry Division, said Monday. Washington had originally hoped for much earlier oil revenue to fund reconstruction after a devastating war and years of United Nations sanctions against deposed leader Saddam Hussein. But...

KIRKUK, Iraq - Saboteurs struck a critical oil pipeline in northern Iraq on Monday, the latest in a series of attacks that have halted the country's oil deliveries to Turkey at an estimated cost of $7 million a day. Adel al-Qazzaz, director general of the Northern Oil Co., said the line attacked Monday had carried 35,000 barrels a day from the Jabour oil field 20 miles southeast of Kirkuk to the main pipeline that originates in the northeastern Iraqi city. The official said saboteurs set the line afire at a valve at 10:30 a.m., sending huge flames and clouds of...

From correspondents in Tikrit, Iraq August 31, 2003 AN oil pipeline linking Iraq's oilfields in Kirkuk with the Baiji refinery to the south was on fire this afternoon after a possible sabotage attack, the US military said. "There is a fire. I don't know if it is a blast. It started at about approximately 2.30pm (Baghdad time) this afternoon," said Major Josslyn Aberle of the 4th Infantry Division. "Our 173rd Airborne Brigade in Kirkuk, civil affairs officers and our taskforce RIO (Rebuilding Iraqi Oil) have shut off the valves, so now it's only residual oil burning. They estimate it will...

The United States has asked Israel to check the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to the oil refineries in Haifa. The Request came in a telegram last week from a senior Pentagon official to a top Foreign Ministry official in Jerusalem. "The Prime Minister's Office, which views the pipeline to Haifa as a "bonus" the U.S. could give to Israel in return for its unequivocal support for the American-led campaign in Iraq, had asked the Americans for the official telegram. "The new pipeline would take oil from the Kirkuk area, where some 40 percent of Iraqi oil is produced,...