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Iraq’s Basra oil export terminal to stop loading for 24 hours

Iraq’s Basra oil export terminal to stop loading for 24 hours
Iraqi workers at the Rumaila oil refinery, near the city of Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, in this 2012 file photo. (AP)
Updated 07 February 2017

Iraq’s Basra oil export terminal to stop loading for 24 hours

Iraq’s Basra oil export terminal to stop loading for 24 hours

BASRA: Iraq’s main oil export terminal, off the southern city of Basra, will stop loading operations for 24 hours, starting midnight Tuesday, because of work to install a new pipeline feeding the facility, two sources at the state-run South Oil Company said.
The terminal’s loading capacity is estimated at around 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd).
Loading offshore at three single-point moorings (SPMs) connected with the Basra terminal will not be affected, they said.
OPEC’s second-largest producer after ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ, Iraq exported a record 3.51 million barrels per day in December from the southern ports.