Iraq Oil Flows Unchanged After Basra HQ Attacked
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Shi'ite militiamen struck at the center of Iraq's oil industry Thursday, setting the South Oil Company headquarters in the southern port of Basra on fire and further undermining the central government authority, police and officials said.
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Japan will keep its troops in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said a day after insurgents fired explosives into a dining tent at a US Army base in the northern city of Mosul.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Oil exports from southern Iraq have been brought to a complete halt, a senior oil official said Monday, following a spate of pipeline attacks launched by insurgents trying to undermine the volatile nation's interim government.    In Baghdad, military officials and representatives of rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held talks Sunday aimed at reducing violence in the restive Baghdad slum of Sadr City...
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Oil prices stopped a five-day slide on  Friday on renewed supply concerns after fresh Iraqi pipeline  attacks outweighed an end to a three-week uprising in the city  of Najaf.
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Iraq is struggling to cope with the fiercest attack yet on its northern oil export network, while flows to southern export terminals have been steady after recovering from sabotage, officials say.
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Oil exports from Iraq have been cut in half by a series of well-orchestrated attacks, officials said Thursday, but the news failed to have any immediate impact on oil prices.
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Insurgent attacks killed eight Iraqi  soldiers on Saturday as guerrillas stayed on the offensive  after failing to scupper last week's historic election.
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Oil prices held just below the &#36;47 mark on Monday as Iraq resumed exports from both its northern and southern outlets after lengthy disruption, despite fierce fighting in the holy city of Najaf.
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Oil prices steadied on Friday,  attempting to end a five-day rout as an end to a three-week  uprising in the Iraqi city of Najaf was balanced against  renewed pipeline attacks.
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Iraqi engineers have fixed most of the damage caused by a sabotage attack earlier this month on the main pipeline carrying Iraqi oil to Turkey, but the country still depends on a network of substitute lines to export crude, an official with the North Oil Co. said on Monday.
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BASRA, Iraq - Saboteurs have attacked about 20 oil pipelines in southern Iraq, reducing exports from the key oil producing region by at least one third, a top oil official said Thursday.    The cluster of pipelines was attacked late Wednesday in Berjasiya, 20 miles southwest of the southern city of Basra, an official with the state-run South Oil Co...
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The more than 1,000 US troops that advanced into Mosul to flush out Iraqi insurgents and retake police stations met little resistance, officials said.
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Insurgents run near a burning oil facility in Eid al-Jahish, near Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 15, 2004. Gunmen attacked and set fire to the station, where oil is stored and then pumped to Ceyhan port, according to eyewitnesses.
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KIRKUK, Iraq, Nov 2  - Iraqi oil exports to Turkey were halted after a series of attacks Tuesday, including a major strike on a pipeline network connecting wells west of Kirkuk with the main export pipeline and refineries further south, oil officials
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BASRA, Iraq  - British troops quit the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Monday, an Iraqi general said, ending the British presence in the oil hub for the first time since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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Iraq's oil exports were still running at half their normal rate Sunday as instability due to an anti-U.S. uprising prevented the re-opening of a main pipeline feeding the country's terminals in the Gulf.
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Oil prices stopped a five-day slide on Friday on renewed supply concerns after fresh Iraqi pipeline attacks outweighed an end to a three-week uprising in the city of Najaf.