Saboteurs continue promoting attacks on oil fields

The blast erupted near the Taaza electric power plant 15 kilometers south of Kirkuk and was commented as an act of "sabotage." The explosions hit a pipeline that connected the Janbur and Kirkuk oil fields and was part of the Northern Oil Company’s network for the domestic market.
Local firefighters and US soldiers brought the fire, which blazed due to the explosion, under control.
Iraq’s administration plans to resume oil exports over the pipeline linking Kirkuk with Turkey’s Mediterranean terminal of Ceyhan. The Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline has been the target of several attacks, the latest on August 30. The pipelines of Iraq, which holds the world’s second-largest oil reserves after Saudi Arabia, have been hit by periodic sabotage since US troops ousted Saddam Hussein in April.