Saboteurs blew up part of Yemen's main Marib-Ras Isa oil pipeline in the early hours of Tuesday, the third such attack in a week, the country's defense ministry said.
Saboteurs blew up part of
Yemen
's
main Marib-Ras Isa oil pipeline in the early hours of Tuesday, the third such
attack in a week, the country's defense ministry said.
"Subversive elements blew up the pipeline at kilometer 98 in the al- Habab
area...in the Marib province," the ministry said in a statement posted on
its website. It didn't say whether the flow of crude oil has been affected.
"The attack on the pipeline is the third in [a] week," it said.
The pipeline carries about 120,000 barrels of oil a day from the Marib fields
to Ras Isa export terminal on the
Red Sea
. It
has been the target of numerous attacks in the past two years, leading to the
cessation of oil extraction for almost a year in 2011 and resulting in losses
of up to $15 million a day in export earnings for the impoverished country.
The Yemeni government said earlier this week that last year's series of
explosions led to losses of $3.1 billion.
Yemen
,
which once produced about 270,000 barrels of oil a day, has seen its oil and
gas pipelines repeatedly sabotaged since anti-government protests broke out in
January 2011.
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