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Iraq
oil exports resume after repairs
Baghdad: Exports of between 800,000 and 900,000
barrels a day are expected to resume after crews completed
key repairs on a pipeline sabotaged last week by insurgents.
Exports
of crude oil were halted last week after sabotage attacks
damaged the two southern lines. The pipelines serve as
the main artery for carrying the oil to offshore terminals
in the Gulf, and transport over 1.5 million barrels a
day. The
larger of the two lines suffered more damage and repairs
are expected to last for another week.
Iraq's
other major export route for crude, a pipeline from the
oil-rich northern region near Kirkuk to the Turkish port
of Ceyhan has operated infrequently since the US-led invasion.
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