Saboteurs have upper hand in an endless war, says Iraq’s Oil Minister

It is not an easy job. Iraq’s only revenue is from the 1.6 million barrels a day of crude oil that the country exports out of the 2.2 million barrels a day it produces. Every day saboteurs blow up Iraqi oil pipelines and Oil Ministry teams try to repair them in an endless war to strangle Iraq’s oil exports to the Mediterranean. Right now the saboteurs have, perhaps temporarily, the upper hand.

“It is as bad as it has ever been,” says Dr Shahristani in an interview with The Independent. “If we can protect the pipeline we can add half a million barrels to our exports immediately.”

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