Iraq resumes oil exports amid sabotage
Iraq has re-entered the world oil market with its first shipment of crude since the war, but sabotage and looting along its largest pipeline delayed the flow of freshly pumped oil – the key to the reconstruction of an economy devastated by sanctions and war.
In a reflection of the vulnerability of the country’s decrepit oil infrastructure, a huge fire burned from a fuel pipeline west of Baghdad after an explosion, apparently caused by saboteurs.
