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Dubai: Iraq's southern oil production and exports have been reduced by 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) since a bomb attack on a pipeline on Thursday, an Iraqi oil official said on Monday.
Iraq aims to fully restore the flow of oil from the south today, the official told Reuters by telephone. A problem at a pumping station from the Bazargan oilfield caused the disruption, he said. He declined to give further details.
A pipeline branch from Bazargan was damaged in the attack on Thursday.
"The decline in both production and exports has been about 100,000 bpd in magnitude," he said. "It started on March 27. The disruption will finish tomorrow."
An official from the Southern Oil Company (SOC) declined to comment. SOC operates the southern oilfields.
Iraq pumps about three quarters of its exports, or about 1.5 million bpd, from the Basra oil terminal in the south, which has largely escaped the persistent technical problems and sabotage in the north.
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