According to the local authorities, “The explosion ripped through the pipeline late on Monday [and] the blast cut off supplies to the Dora refinery.”
The pipeline was transporting crude from Beiji to Dora, which produces gasoline, kerosene and liquefied petroleum gas for the domestic market.
It is believed the attacks on Iraq’s oil and energy infrastructure is the work of insurgents, both homegrown and imported, which want to undermine the interim Iraqi government which will assume power on 30 June 2004.
