Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Maliki orders Army to make greater efforts to protect the refineries and oil pipelines

Arbil, June 15 (Rn) – issued by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered the Iraqi army should make additional efforts on the issue of bra refineries and oil pipelines in the country, to prevent any assault or targeting those pipelines and refineries.

He said the site (Blomberk) e, that the “meeting of the Iraqi cabinet, which was held on Tuesday, included a discussion of the performance of ministries within the 100 days that Maliki had set for evaluating the work of ministries and local councils of Iraq,” quoted Maliki as saying during the meeting that “any failure to protection of oil firms, would create problems for Msfii session and Peggy, as well as pipelines that carry fuel to power stations. “

For his part, said the office manager to lead the military forces of the Iraqi armed Farouk al-Araji “The Iraqi army received the task of protecting the Baiji oil refinery (north Baghdad) of the police force by about 15 days.” Noting that “surveillance cameras set up in several places to help stop the incidents targeting the refinery and oil pipelines.”

It is said that pipelines and oil, and refineries are continuously to the attacks and targeted by armed groups, in order to harm the interests of the Iraqi government.

The Baiji refinery, one of the largest refiners of Iraq, has the capacity to produce 250 thousand barrels of oil a day, but it stopped working several days because of the targeting process armed in February 26 last year, which resulted in raising the problem of scarcity of fuel in the country, and its resulting effects negative in the production of electric power stations.

And the output is exported Baiji refinery, through pipelines to the oil of Kirkuk to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, but the pipeline was damaged in last March as a result of targeting the bombing, which resulted in heavy losses, and waste of large quantities of oil.

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