Iraqi oil pumping station attacked

Eight oil pipelines feeding two oilfields in southern Iraq have been sabotaged in a bomb attack, Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV channel reported on Thursday.

An official from Iraq's South Oil Company was quoted as saying that an explosive device went off at 9:00 p.m. (1700 GMT ) on Wednesday under a bridge which collapsed.

Eight parallel pipelines feeding the Zubeir 1 and Zubeir 2 oilfields were damaged, he said. The two oilfields lie 20 km southwest of southern Iraqi city of Basra, the report said.

Iraq's oil infrastructure has been repeatedly attacked by insurgents, which caused enormous income losses for the interim Iraqi government and hampered its reconstruction efforts.

Source: Xinhua