Oil exports from northern Iraq have been halted by a sabotage attack on the pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said on Sunday. "A 55 kilometre (34 mile) section of the pipeline was damaged in the attack, causing a large oil spillage. Exports have stopped and technicians from the northern oil company (NOC) have ...

Oil exports from northern Iraq have been halted by sabotage to the pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said on Sunday. "A 55 kilometre (34 mile) section of the pipeline was damaged in the attack, causing a large oil spillage. Exports have stopped and technicians from the northern oil company (NOC) have gone to ...

An Iraqi oil official says Iraq's central government has approved Kurdish plans to start exporting crude oil next month. Oil Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad told The Associated Press on Sunday that the oil would be marketed by the government-owned State Oil Marketing Organization and shipped through a pipeline to ...

Separatist Kurdish rebels on Saturday claimed responsibility for an explosion at an oil pipeline linking Iraq with southern Turkey, an agency close to the rebels reported. The separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said in a statement that the explosion was an "act of sabotage," the Firat news agency reported on its website. The twin pipeline linking the northern Iraqi city ...