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The line's Iraqi part has been a principal sabotage target since 2003. [2] On 26 October 2009, the blast near Mosul halted oil supplies through the pipeline. [3] On 16 August 2013, at around 0100 GMT near the al-Shura area 60 km to the south of the city of Mosul a bomb attack damaged the pipeline. [4]
Later on, the pipeline was the target of attacks by the Jewish Irgun paramilitary organisation. [5] In 1948, with the outbreak of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the official operation of the pipeline ended when the Iraqi Government refused to pump any more oil through it. [6] The portion between Kirkuk and Tripoli remained in operation.
Along with its sister terminal, the Khawr al ‘Amīyah Oil Terminal (ميناء خور العمية, alt. Khor al-Amaya Oil Terminal, KAAOT), the terminals provide the principal point of export for more than eighty percent of Iraq's gross domestic product as of 2009, [1] and all of the oil from the southern Başrah refinery.
A map of world oil reserves according to U.S. EIA, 2017 See: Oil reserves in Iraq According to the Oil and Gas Journal, Iraq's proven oil reserves are 115 billion barrels, although these statistics have not been revised since 2001 and are largely based on 2-D seismic data from nearly three decades ago.
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