Yemen pipeline attacked again

Explosion: a pipeline in Yemen has been attacked yet again

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By News Wires

 10 January 2013 08:58 GMT

Flows of oil through Yemen's main crude export pipeline have stopped again after it was blown up by unknown attackers on Thursday morning, government and oil industry officials said.

Yemen resumed pumping oil on 31 December at about 70,000 barrels per day after the latest repairs to a pipeline which used to carry roughly 110,000 bpd of Marib light crude to an export terminal on the Red Sea before a spate of attacks began in 2011.

Just 10 days after flows restarted, unknown attackers blew up the pipeline again by placing a roadside bomb near the line in Serwah area in the central Maarib province, Reuters quoted a government security official saying.

"The bombing of the pipeline made us stop the…

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