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Below is an timeline of the attacks on Iraqi oil
pipelines, in many cases giving distances. I believe, the information was
originally supplied in kilometres, but was translated to miles. The mile
numbers in some cases were corrupted to rounded figures to give the impression
of miles being the primary source. Later a conversion to kilometres was
added but with numbers derived from the converted miles, not from the original
sources.
I also feel there was more then one person providing the
information. One person rounded the miles to numbers ending in zeros and
the other kept it more exact. Note how in some cases 30 miles appears as
48 km and in others as 50 km.
I believe this to be a common practice.
I have added in brackets [km]
what I feel were the true distances in kilometres before mile
rounding:
Attacks on Iraqi
pipelines, oil installations, and oil
personnel:
2003
1. June
12 � attack along the [1000 km] 600 mile (960km) pipeline that carries crude oil from
Iraq's northern fields near Kirkuk to Turkey's port of Ceyhan on the
Mediterranean Sea
2. June 19 � explosion in Bayji refinery complex about
125 miles (200km) north of Baghdad
3. June 22 �
explosion in natural gas line near Hit, a city about [150
km] 95 miles (152 km) northwest of
Baghdad
4. June 23 - gas pipeline explosion outside the town of Abidiyah
Gaarbiga, near the Syrian border in western Iraq
5. June 24 � explosion near
Barwanah pipeline carries crude to al-Dawrah refinery in Baghdad
6. June 26 �
explosion near Al-Fatha near the River Tigris
7. July 29 � attack on pipeline
near Basra
8. July 31 - saboteurs blew up part of a pipeline near Bayji
9.
August 12 � attack near al-Taji near Baghdad
10. August 15 - explosion near
Bayji
11. August 16 - explosion near Bayji
12. September 8 � attack on
pipeline from the Jabour oil field [30 km] 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Kirkuk to the main pipeline
that originates there
13. September 18 - attack on pipeline from Kirkuk to
Ceyhan
14. October 11 - attack on pipeline from Zab to Kirkuk
15. October
16 - pipeline explosion near the city of Hadeetha, 125 miles
(200 km)northwest of Baghdad
16. October 23 - explosion near natural
gas pipeline [50 km] 30 miles (48
km) south of Mosul
17. October 23 - bombing attack on an oil pipeline
[250 km] 150 miles (240
km) north of Baghdad
18. November 1 - explosion at oil pipeline about
9 miles (15 km) north of Tikrit
19. November 4 -
explosion at a pipeline plant in Zumar, 38 miles (60
km) northwest of Mosul
20. November 10 - Mohammed al-Zibari,
distribution manager for the Oil Distribution Company was shot and wounded in
the northern city of Mosul in what seems to be the first assassination attempt
on officials from an Iraqi oil firm. Zibari's son was killed in the attack.
Zibari told Reuters, "Three people opened fire with AK-47s. My driver saw them
and so did my bodyguard," adding "Definitely foreign regime loyalists are
responsible for this. I have no personal enemies, no tribal or family problems,
and I'm not a member of any political party."
21. November 17 - blast 1.2 miles (2 km) east of the Bayji refinery, at a pipeline
taking fuel oil to the Daura refinery, in the southern suburb of Baghdad.
Resulting damage on the power supply line to the 300,000 barrels per day Bayji
refinery, located 156 miles (250 km) north of
Baghdad, forced a 2 day electricity shutdown.
22. November 18 - explosion on
oil pipeline in the region of Mashruh al-Therthar, south-west of the city of
Samarra. The feeds the Daura refineries in Baghdad.
23. November 22 - Abdel
Salam Qanbar, an Iraqi police colonel in charge of security for oil
installations in the northern city of Mosul was shot and killed by unknown
attackers in a vehicle.
24. November 22 - club inside the Iraqi Northern Oil
Company compound in Kirkuk, [250 km] 150 miles (240 km) north of Baghdad, was hit during the
night by mortar shells wounding three foreign nationals.
25. November 23 -
blast on a pipeline transporting gas from the Jambur oil field to the Bayji
refinery caused fire so huge its glow at night is visible from Kirkuk, 19 miles (30 km) north of Jambur.
26. November 26 - oil
pipeline linking oilfields in northern Iraq to the Bayji refinery on fire near
the village of Sharqat, about [50 km] 30 miles (48 km) north of Bayji.
27. December 9 -
explosion on a gas pipeline that runs from Kirkuk to a bottled gas factory north
of Baghdad.
28. December 10 - explosion at point 84 miles
(135 km) west of Kirkuk on oil pipeline linking the Bayji and Daura
refineries.
Watch video
29. December 19 - blaze on a pipeline south of Baghdad causing
significant leakage.
30. December 20 - rocket-propelled grenades hit storage
tanks in southern Baghdad on Saturday; resulting fires burned about [10 ML] 2.6 million gallons of
gasoline.
31. December 20 - rocket-propelled grenades cause pipeline
explosion in the al-Mashahda area [25 km] 15 miles (24 km) north of Baghdad.
32. December 21 -
explosion on pipeline in the al-Mashahda region, 30 miles
(50 km) north Baghdad.
33. December 21 - pumping station near Bayji
refinery attacked with mortars.
34. December 22 - explosion at 3:30 pm (1230
GMT) in Riad about 28 miles (45 km) west of Kirkuk,
on fuel pipeline between Kirkuk's oilfields and Iraq's biggest refinery in
Baiji, parallel to the crucial pipeline between Kirkuk and the Turkish
Mediterranean port of Ceyhan.
35. December 22 - fire on pipeline supplying
Bayji refinery with crude from the oil fields of Kirkuk at point about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of
refinery.
2004
36. January 7 - explosion holes pipeline
connecting oil fields to a pumping station in the area around Hassiba, 85 miles (135 km) west of Kirkuk, Northern Oil Company
director general Adel Kazzaz said "The fuel line was used for domestic market
needs and filling up tankers that export crude."
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