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| Iraq |
| Govt controls Baiji refinery |
| 2014-06-13 |
| [Iraq Sun] Iraq's biggest oil refinery at Beiji remained under government control on Thursday, secured by Iraqi special forces, as Sunni rebels staged an offensive through northern Iraq, Iraqi Oil Minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi said. Luaibi said Iraq was not importing any additional fuel and that stored supplies of gasoline and diesel were good. The country's crude oil exports from its southern terminal at Basra were running at an average 2.6-2.7 million barrels per day as of Wednesday, he said. Militants from an al-Qaida splinter group, who seized Iraq's second biggest city of Mosul this week, advanced into the oil refinery town of Beiji on Wednesday, setting the courthouse and police station on fire. |
| Posted by:Fred |