Iraq oilfield shut down after mortar attack
27/11/2006 - 17:32:59A mortar attack started a huge fire tonight at an oil facility near Kirkuk, site of some of Iraq’s richest crude deposits, an official at North Oil has reported.
The official said two mortar rounds hit a pipeline filtering facility 25 kilometres (15 miles) northwest of Kirkuk at 6:30pm, shutting down the flow of crude to the massive Beiji refinery to the southwest.
The fire was burning out of control and could take hours or longer to extinguish, the official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to reporters. He said the flow of oil from all of Kirkuk’s rich fields had been shut down as well.
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