Pipeline failure takes major export terminal offline

Last Update: 2022-09-16 00:00:00- Source: Iraq Oil Report

A worker stands at the al-Basra Oil Terminal (ABOT), one of Iraq's major export outlets, February 2010. (BEN LANDO/Iraq Oil Report)

BASRA - Iraq has temporarily lost over 1.3 million barrels per day (bpd) of export capacity due to a pipeline failure at the Al-Basra Oil Terminal (ABOT).

Three Iraqi officials, two at the Oil Ministry and one at the state-run Basra Oil Company (BOC), said oil flows to ABOT have stopped completely because of pipeline damage.

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