NZ: Bombs hit Yemen’s Marib oil export pipeline: official
SANAA, Nov. 12 — Two successive bombings hit Yemen’s main crude oil export pipeline late on Sunday, cutting flows through the Marib line to the Red Sea export terminal of Ras Isa, an interior ministry official said on Monday.
“The bombings struck two separate sections of the pipeline on Sunday night in a troubled desert area dominated by armed clansmen of Wadi Abida tribe in eastern Marib province,” the official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Repairing process on the damages were undergoing, as a full- scale investigation has been launched to track the perpetrators, said the official.
The 272-mile (about 438 kilometers) pipeline carries about 110, 000 barrels oil a day from Marib, some 173 km northeast of the capital Sanaa, to the Ras Isa terminal in the Red Sea.
In August, the pipeline resumed full capacity operation after a nine-month closure due to repeated attacks during the uprising last year.
The country’s transitional government, which depends on oil exports for up to 70 percent of its budget, has beefed up security measures to protect the pipeline and prevent further attacks.
