Bombs shut Rumaila south output

Output at Iraq's Rumaila oilfield has been cut to 530,000 barrels per day from about 1.24 million bpd after two bombs hit pipelines on Friday and halted some production, a senior Iraqi oil official said on Saturday.

Shut: The oil field in the southern Rumaila area, the pipeline network of which was hit by two bombs late on Friday.
Shut: The oil field in the southern Rumaila area, the pipeline network of which was hit by two bombs late on Friday.
Published 10 October 2011, 04:25Updated 11 October 2016, 09:26
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