He said the Dora oil refinery, the largest in the capital, was working only intermittently and the three pipelines that supply it with crude oil were regularly sabotaged. The main northern export pipeline to Turkey was attacked on Friday, dramatically limiting the flow of oil. Last month, shipments of oil from the north were only half the scheduled amount.
The oil ministry said it lost US$5 billion in potential revenues between August and October because of sabotage.
While there were just two attacks on pipelines in Iraq in February, there were 27 such attacks last month, Ghadhban said.
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