Saboteurs Monday blew up a main pipeline linking oil fields between Yemen's eastern Marib province and the capital Sanaa, "partially" interrupting the flow of crude, a local government official said.
Saboteurs Monday blew up a main pipeline linking oil fields between
Yemen
's
eastern Marib province and the capital Sanaa, "partially"
interrupting the flow of crude, a local government official said.
"Unknown saboteurs blew up the pipeline at dawn at kilometer 35 in Wadi
Abida" in Marib province, the official said, requesting anonymity.
As a result "oil flow was partially interrupted from the pipeline"
that runs 320 kilometers (200 miles) from the Safer oilfields in Marib to an
export terminal at the
Red Sea
, said
the official.
The explosion caused a fire and plumes of smoke could be seen over the explosion
site from many kilometers away, according to residents reached by telephone.
Attacks on oil and gas pipelines by Al-Qaeda or by tribesmen seeking to win
concessions from the central government are common in
Yemen
, an
impoverished country that produces about 300,000 barrels of oil a day, mostly
for export.
According to official figures, lost production due to pipeline attacks in the
east cost the government more than $1 billion in 2012, while oil exports fell
by 4.5%.
In July, Petroleum and Minerals Minister Hisham Abdullah said
Yemen
had
lost more than $4 billion in revenues since February 2011 as a result of such
attacks.
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