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| Iraq |
| Developments in Iraq’s Oil Fields |
| 2003-03-31 |
| Firefighters faced the remaining two blazes at booby-trapped oil wells in Iraq's Rumeila South oil field. A team from Boots & Coots International Well Control extinguished a fire and capped a well on Saturday. Kuwaiti firefighters were battling a separate fire. Firefighters hope to put out the two fires within a week. 5 down,2 to go. Iraqis who previously worked at the field have already started returning to ask for their jobs back, said Boots & Coots president, Brian Krause. Good sign, make sure you keep an eye on them. Rumeila South, just north of the Kuwait-Iraq border, is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields. Air Marshal Brian Burridge, the top British commander in the Gulf, has said he expected Iraq to begin resuming oil exports from the field in three months. But some oil analysts say exports could resume within weeks because U.S. and British forces captured Iraq's main southern pipelines and its Persian Gulf export terminal of Mina al-Bakr intact. Heh, heh |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #5 I can't wait for the History/Discovery Channel spot covering that SEAL raid on the export terminal. After seeing SEAL training on Discovery, seeing the execution of an actual mission would be fantastic. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-03-31 14:37:56 |
| #4 Yea,let Turkey have thier pipe line fees,just stay the hell out of Iraq. |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-03-31 10:05:37 |
| #3 turkey is a long time strategic allie, who materially suffered (both monetarilly as well as loss of life) after the gulf war. turkey will be a critical partner and we should make every effort to reconcile with them. with respect to syria close the pipeline, until we have regime change. |
| Posted by: Timmy the Wonder Dog 2003-03-31 08:36:20 |
| #2 I can't wait for the History/Discovery Channel spot covering that SEAL raid on the export terminal. What I've heard is that they went in and took it without firing a shot--zero casualties on all sides! A textbook, letter-perfect raid! There's going to be a slew of great documentaries after all is said and done here. What we're seeing on TV isn't even the tip of the iceberg. |
| Posted by: Dar Steckelberg 2003-03-31 08:32:54 |
| #1 the syrian and turkey pipelines should stay off as well, backstabbing bastards. I expected that from baby assad, but expected more from turkey....just as Murat has spiralled down into gibberish and trolling, turkey should be left to stew in their own |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-03-31 08:20:05 |