Yemen pipeline at standstill

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By News Wires

 20 October 2011 14:48 GMT

Oil flow through Yemen’s main crude oil pipeline has now ground to a complete halt after a third blast within two weeks, according to reports.

A shipping source based in Yemen told Reuters on Thursday that no oil was passing through the pipeline to its offshore Ras Isa terminal in the Red Sea.

"The oil flow has stopped, bit by bit after every explosion. There are only 400,000 barrels of oil on board in the tanks kept for export order", the source said. No further details were immediately available.

On 1 October a blast occurred on a section of the pipe 30 kilometres off Marib city, just days after a similar incident on 26 September on a…

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