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Iraq Pipeline Watch
Attacks on Iraqi pipelines, oil installations, and oil personnel:
2006
286. January 1 - a bomb exploded near a gas station near Daura. Three
civilians were injured.
287. January 1 - attack on pipeline supplying petroleum products to a
power plant near the Daura refinery cut capacity at the plant to 30%.
288. January 1 - riots broke out in Kirkuk. Hundreds of demonstrators,
protesting fuel shortages, set two gas stations and offices belonging to
the national oil company on fire.
289. January 4 - a rocket-propelled grenade attack destroyed 20 fuel
tankers in a convoy of 60 heading to Baghdad from Bayji. "Islamic Army"
claims responsiblity.
290. January 4 - Rahim Ali Sudani, a director-general at the oil
ministry, and his son were killed in a drive-by attack on their car.
291. January 4 - nighttime mortar attack on gas pipeline in Bagwan,
about 16 miles northwest of Kirkuk.
292. January 5 - a bomb exploded on an oil pipeline in Bagwan, about 16
miles northwest of Kirkuk.
293. January 15 - Insurgents attacked a checkpoint installed to monitor
an oil pipeline, killing one guard and injuring three others south of
Baghdad.
294. January 25 - a bomb exploded under a pipeline linking an oilfield
near Kirkuk with the terminal at Ceyhan, causing a fire and a partial
reduction in pumping.
295. January 25 - security forces defused two bombs that had been placed
under pipeline in the Dibis area north of Kirkuk.
296. February 1 - attack on an oil pipeline in Muhwailha, 40 miles south
of Baghdad.
297. February 2 - attack on oil pumping station feeding one of two
export pipelines from Kirkuk to Ceyhan.
299. February 2 - Insurgents mounted an IED attack on oil stabilization
plant at Kirkuk.
300. February 3 - mortar shells hit an oil facility near Kirkuk.
301. February 6 - insurgents used an IED to breech the oil pipeline that
feeds the al-Daura oil refinery with crude oil.
302. February 17 - insurgents blew up the main pipeline feeding crude
oil from Kirkuk to a refinery in Daura.
303. February 24 - An explosion set fire to an oil pipeline south of
Samarra.
304. February 25 - attack on a pipeline near Bayji.
305. February 28 - Iraqi Security Forces arrested an unknown number of
security guards responsible for providing protection to the oil
infrastructure in the Kirkuk area. The guards have been accused of
providing help to insurgents who are trying to destroy the
Baghdad-Bayji-Kirkuk oil pipelines.
306. March 1 - attack on pipeline near Taji.
307. March 1 - an oil pipeline was burning in Musayyib, following a
rocket-propelled grenade attack. Gunmen shot at firefighters as they
rushed to the scene, wounding two of them. Arriving a short time later,
police engaged the insurgents in an hour-long gunbattle.
308. March 2 - guards with Iraq's oil protection service killed one man
and detained three others as they were trying to plant bombs under a
pipeline west of Kerbala, south of Baghdad.
309. March 2 - attack on an oil pipeline connecting the Al-Daura
refinery and Al-Musayyib power plant, in southern Baghdad, causing a fire.
310. March 8 - 9:00am explosion at the Basra headquarters of the
Southern Oil Company damaged the fuel section's building; unclear if
caused by bomb or mortar.
311. March 14 - insurgents launched an attack on an oil pipeline near
Hawijah.
312. March 18 - iocket attack against oil installation near Kirkuk.
313. March 18 - rocket was fired against the North Oil Company HQ.
314. March 19 - Raad Al Asali, the director of an oil products company
in Mosul was killed as he left his home.
315. March 21 - insurgents attacked an natural gas pipeline northeast of
Tikrit with an IED resulting in breeching of the pipeline and ignition
of the gas.
316. March 21 - two oil workers were shot and killed in Bayji.
317. March 25 - insurgents mounted a mortar attack on Bayji oil refinery
during a VIP visit.
318. March 30 - insurgents blew up a pipeline transporting oil from
Kirkuk to the Bayji refinery, at a point near a village 30 miles
southwest of Kirkuk.
319. March 30 - insurgents shot dead eight workers at Iraq's largest oil
refinery in Bayji. Another man was wounded when the gunmen ambushed the
workers' minibus at a roadblock as it drove out of the refinery.
320. March 31 - Blast underneath oil pipeline that runs from Bayji to Daura.
321. April 1 - roadside bomb blast near oil pipeline 44 miles (70 km)
south of Basra kills two members of Iraq's Facility Protection Services
(FPS); no damage to the pipeline.
322. April 10 - three Oil Protection Force workers were injured when an
IED detonated in a Toyota Caprice vehicle which they were investigating.
The incident occurred to the north of Az Zubayr near the Al Swadi Gas
Station.
323. April 12 - an attempt to shoot the director of the Northern Gas
Company Director failed.
324. April 26 - two Iraqi army soldiers, who were guarding an oil
pipeline, were shot dead by armed men in two vehicles near the town of
Balad.
325. April 29 - the Northern Gas Company was attacked with rockets. The
attack targeted three critical Oil and Gas plants in Kirkuk. These are
at present under reconstruction and refurbishment. Initial assessments
indicate that up to 16 rounds of 57mm were received from two separate
firing points. There was no damage reported and no loss of operational
capability. The firing point was believed to have been a white pick up
truck, located to the SW of the plant.
326. April 30 - Iraqi Police discovered a Katyusha rocket near Kirkuk.
The rocket had been placed on a pile of rocks at an angle with a timer
attached, possibly targeting the Northern Oil Company. Iraqi EOD
disarmed the rocket without incident.
327. May 6 - six engineers working for Iraq's state-owned Northern Oil
Company were kidnapped while they were returning from a meeting in Kirkuk.
328. May 8 - insurgents attacked an oil pipeline with an IED at 45 km
south from Baghdad. There were no casualties in the attack, but the oil
pipeline had to be closed due to the blast. The pipeline carries oil
from Dora refinery in Baghdad to Musayyib power station.
328. May 10 - attack on an oil pipeline pipeline carrying oil from Daura
refinery to Mussayyib power station.
329. May 15 - attack on pipeline in the Daura refinery.
330. May 16 - insurgents assaulted a car park in northeast Baghdad,
killing 18 people and injuring at least 37. Iraqi police said the gunmen
shot five guards who were looking after the garage in the Shaab
neighbourhood. They then detonated an IED on a parked oil tanker. The
bomb killed 13 people.
331. May 20 - a member of the Facilities Protection Service was killed
having been shot by two unknown gunmen in the Hayy ar Risalah district
of Basrah.
332. May 21- gunmen killed two policemen working in the Oil Protection
Facilities in the town of Ar Riyad 40 miles southwest of Kirkuk.
333. May 21 - in al yusufiyah, insurgents detonated an IED on an oil
pipeline, starting a massive blaze.
334. May 21 - two Oil Protection Service officers were killed in a
drive-by shooting in Tikrit.
335. May 28 - a local government worker who works in an oil refinery was
murdered. He was shot twice in the neck in the Abu Al Khasib region of
Basra Province by four unknown males on two motorbikes.
336. May 31 - insurgents carried out a rocket attack against an oil
pipeline in Riyadh.
337. May 31 - a three vehicle convoy was escorting a pipeline repair
team from the Ministry of Oil when it was ambushed with an IED in the
Rasheed District in south-western Baghdad. After the initial explosion
insurgents then engaged the convoy with small arms fire from a
plantation near the Al Taji Gas Factory. Two Iraqi police officers were
wounded in the attack.
338. May 31 - a security patrol was ambushed with two IEDs the Ad Daura
Oil Refinery in southern Baghdad. It is reported that one security
officer was wounded in the attack. 339. June 1 - in northern Iraq gunmen
opened fire on Col. Ziyad Tariq, deputy-commander of the oil protection
force in Kirkuk, killing him and a bodyguard and wounding another
bodyguard as they left a restaurant. Also, a maintenance unit from the
oil protection force was attacked by gunmen southwest of Kirkuk and two
members were wounded.
340. June 6 - four Northern Oil Company employees were kidnapped on
their way to the Ajeel oil site.
341. June 8 - Gunmen in Baghdad kidnapped the director general of the
State Company for Oil Projects, Muthana al-Badri in Aazamiya, northern
Baghdad.
342. June 9 - in Kirkuk gunmen attacked soldiers guarding a pipeline,
wounding three of them and killing one civilian. also on the road
between the oil-refinery town of Baiji and Tikrit, gunmen killed three
oil engineers.
343. June 12 - six people have been killed in a roadside bomb attack in
the southern Daura district in Baghdad. The blast targeted a bus
carrying workers to Baghdad's main oil refinery and comes a day after
al-Qaeda in Iraq vowed to carry out large-scale after the killing of its
leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
344. June 16 - an employee of the Northern Gas Company was similarly
shot dead near the oil city of Kirkuk.
345. June 27 - a suicide car bomb exploded at a gas station in Kirkuk,
killing at least three civilians and wounding 14 people who were lined
up to get fuel.
346. June 27 - three Iraqi policemen from a unit assigned to protect oil
facilities in northern Iraq were injured by a roadside IED. A security
source said the three men were injured when a bomb exploded as their
patrol passed by in an area north of Kirkuk.
347. July 3 - early morning attack section of Yumurtalik pipeline in the
city of Hassan about 40 miles southeast of Kirkuk.
348. July 9 - a sabotage attack along Iraq's vital northern oil export
route to Turkey fractured both pipelines and repairs will take at least
two weeks.
349. July 11 - insurgents killed an engineer working for the North Oil
Company, along with his driver, while he was heading to work in Kirkuk.
350. July 11 - insurgents attacked a convoy carrying security personnel
tasked with protecting oil facilities south of Mosul, killing at least
10 troops and injuring scores of others. The troops had been ambushed
while on a routine inspection of oil pipes in the region. 351. July 13 -
attack on a security patrol of the Northern Oil Company in Kirkuk killed
three policemen and wounded six civilians.
352. July 16 - the head of Iraq's North Oil Company, Adel Qazaz, was
kidnapped in northern Baghdad.
353. July 28 - attack near Samarra on a pipeline connecting Bayji and
the Daura refinery.
354. July 31 - Iraq?s northern pipeline carrying crude from the northern
oilfields to Turkey's Ceyhan port was sabotaged and ruptured, delaying
the restart of export from a previous attack on 9 July 2006.
355. August 13 - insurgents shot and killed a colonel in the Oil
Protection Facilities, a security body charged with guarding Iraq's oil
infrastructure. He was shot while waiting at gas station north of
Tikrit, 110 miles north of Baghdad.
356. August 13 - approximately 63 Iraqis were killed and another 140
wounded when bombs exploded in the vicinity of a building, rupturing a
gas pipeline and causing a gas explosion near the Hawra market in
southeast Baghdad.
357. September 1 - an IED attack targeting an oil pipeline on the
outskirts of Musayyib south of Baghdad cut supply to a major electricity
station. The pipeline feeds Musayyib's electricity station, which
provides power to the cities of Karbala, Najaf, Hillah and Diwaniyah.
358. September 3 - attack on an oil pipeline near Kirkuk.
359. Septmebr 10 - a shooting attack near Bayji. Gunmen in two cars
ambushed a bus carrying oil employees, killing four people and wounding one.
360. September 13 - an oil installation guard was wounded in a clash
with gunmen who tried to blow up an oil pipeline in al-Fatha using an
IED,in an area 20 miles south of Kirkuk.
361. September 17 - an oil pipeline was damaged by an IED in the town of
Balad, 55 miles north of Baghdad. 362. September 18 - two militants who
attempted an attack a gas tanker were arrested in the area of Shuwan,
eastern Kirkuk. The attackers were attempting to hijack the tanker.
363. September 20 - a suicide truck bomb detonated at a police
checkpoint at the entrance of a Baghdad oil refinery in southern
Baghdad, killing three people and wounding 13 others.
364. September 22 - a pipeline carrying crude oil from the fields around
Kirkuk to the refinery in Baiji was ruptured during a mortar attack.
365. September 26 - an IED ruptured gas pipeline at Bayji. No one was
hurt when insurgents blew up the pipeline, which connects the Bayji
refinery and a gas field.
366. September 29 - two fuel tankers were hit with roadside IEDs
southwest of Samarra.
367. October 5 - an IED planted under an oil pipeline was detonated near
the village of Ishaqi north of Baghdad. The explosion set fire to the
pipeline linking the refinery in Bayji and the refinery in al-Daura.
368. October 7 - a roadside IED hit a fuel tanker being escorted by
American troops near Samarra, sending plumes of black smoke into the air.
369. October 28 - a roadside IED targeting security forces guarding an
oil industry facility wounded two police officers in eastern Baghdad.
370. October 30 - gunmen attacked a police centre assigned to oil,
facilities protection in the city of Bayji, killing two policemen and
destroying a police car.
371. November 1 - a roadside IED detonated near the convoy of the
security advisor of the Governor of Salah ad Din Province in Bayji. He
was unharmed but two of his guards were wounded.
372. November 2 - Gunmen killed a guard of the Northern Oil Company in
Kirkuk.
373. November 2 - Sarkot Hikmat Shawkat, an officer with the city's Oil
Protection Police, was killed in a drive-by shooting.
374. November 2 - insurgents set up a fake security checkpoint and
killed the drivers of two fuel trucks and kidnapped three other people
near Baquba.
375. November 13 - Five employees of the state-owned North Oil Company,
one of them a women, were ambushed and killed in a small arms attack in
the northern outskirts of Baghdad as they drove into the capital.
376. November 21 - In east Baghdad, a roadside IED detonated near an Oil
Ministry convoy, killing four people.
377. November 25 - In Kirkuk, police found the bullet-riddled body of a
pipeline security guard.
378. November 27 - Two mortar bombs hit the North Oil Co.
pipeline-filtering facility northwest of Kirkuk. The resultant fire was
burning out of control, and the flow of oil from all of Kirkuk's fields
had been shut down to the Baiji refinery to the southwest.
379. November 27 - An IED detonated under an oil pipeline and set it on
fire today 20 miles south of Baghdad, and Iraqi andUS forces were sent
to secure the area. The pipeline carries crude oil from storage tanks in
nearby Latifiyah to the Daura refinery in Baghdad.
380. November 27 - The corpses of two Oil Ministry employees were
discovered in the town of Khalis.
381. November 29 - Police colonel ahmed izdeen from the ministry of oil
was assassinated by unknown gunmen in Baghdad.
382. December 10 - in 'Rabi`ah, a suicide bomber driving a pick-up truck
rammed his vehicle into a parking area full of fuel trucks, setting four
oil trucks on fire.
383. December 11 - major fire broke out at an oil storage facility after
explosions night in a volatile area south of Baghdad.
384. December 13 - the Daurah oil refinery was hit by mortar bombs which
damaged the installation and started a fire.
385. December 13 - Two suicide trucks forced entry into a base of Iraq's
oil infrastructure protection force, killing 10 soldiers and wounding
six and wounding three civilians. One after another, the trucks ploughed
into the military base near the town of Ar Riyad, 50km from the oil
centre of Kirkuk and along the pipelines carrying crude to the Baiji
refinery. The Strategic Infrastructure Brigade, an army unit formed out
of local tribesmen, is tasked with protecting the northern oil fields
and the hundreds of miles of pipeline that cross the flat plains of
northern Iraq.
386. December 30 - insurgents shot dead two oil company employees in
Mosul, northwest of Baghdad.
2007
387. January 10 - Up to 50 Iraqi militants armed with RPG-7 as well as
light and medium weapons ambushed a large force of the Oil Protection
Force, whom were transporting security equipment. Sources indicated that
more than 20 of the Oil Protection Force personnel were killed and more
than 20 injured.
388. January 11 - An oil pipeline of the Northern Oil Company was
sabotaged and breached near Kirkuk and the oil spill set ablaze.
389. January 21 - Insurgents assaulted guards protecting an oil
facility, seized their weapons and vehicles and set an oil well on fire
in the town of Dibs.
390. January 22 - An oil technician - an employee of the Northern Oil
Company Ltd - was shot to death in the northern city of Mosul.
391. January 23 - A roadside IED detonated near a minibus carrying
workers of the Northern Oil Company Ltd while travelling to the
oil-refinery city of Baiji, 112 miles north of Baghdad. There were no
casualties.
392.February 11 - Gunmen killed Lieutenant Colonel Jamal Mohammad, the
chief of serious crimes office of the Oil Protection Force at Bayji and
wounded two of his guards. Reports claimed that two of the attackers
were also killed.
393. February 12 - Insurgents placed two IEDs on a well of the Northern
Oil Company near Kirkut. The explosions destroyed the well and set the
oil ablaze.
394. February 13 - Insurgents attacked and destroyed a road tanker with
of the National Guard on the highway near Al Buwarah. The driver was
killed and a passenger wounded.
395. February 19 - Iraqi insurgents deployed a suicide bomber in a road
tanker north of Baghdad.
396. February 20 - Six people were killed and 105 injured after a
suicide IED detonated his device in a fuel tanker in the town of At
Taji, north of Baghdad.
397. February 23 - A VBIED incorporated into a road fuel tanker exploded
in a market in the town of Buhayrat al Habbaniyah in the province of
Anba. The explosion killed 40 people and injured 64.
398. February 25 - Two labourers of an oil company were killed and one
wounded by a roadside bomb in Kirkuk.
399. February 27 - A convoy of four road tankers carrying oil products
was stopped shortly after it left the Bayji refinery by Iraqi militants.
The militants shot and killed the drivers and burned the vehicles and
the cargo.
400. March 25 - Insurgents killed Ali Amin, director of a gas company,
near his house in a drive-by shooting in Mosul.
401. March 26 - A roadside IED destroyed a fuel tanker killing the
vehicle crew.
402. March 26 - Insurgents detonated an IED beneath an oil pipeline near
Bayji. The attack started an oil fire that burned for several hours
before it could be extinguished.
403. April 1 - Insurgents attacked a road tanker contracted to carry
fuel to the US military. The incident occurred near a fertilizer factory
in the middle of the Muhafazat Salah ad Din province. The vehicle was
destroyed in the ensuing fire and both the driver and guard was injured.
404. April 4 - Fuel outlet guard shot dead, Insurgents attacked a petrol
station in al Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, killing one guard and
wounding another.
405. April 5 - Insurgents ruptured an oil pipeline with an IED near the
border with Kuwait, cutting off supplies from surrounding fields to
storage tanks in Basra. The attack occurred just north of Safwan on a
pipeline operated by the South Oil Company. The explosion started a
major fire which took several hours to extinguish.
406. April 5 - A road tanker supplying coalition forces with fuel was
attacked near al-Rayashia in Bayji city with a roadside IED which
destroyed the tanker and killed the driver and escort.
407. April 6 - Insurgents detonated an IED under an oil pipeline in
southern Kirkut which carries oil from Kirkuk to the Baiji refineries,
starting a major fire. The incident occurred near the main road linking
Kirkuk to the district of al-Huweija.
408. April 9 - An oil protection guard was killed in a IED attack north
of Basra. Two Iraqi soldiers were also killed in the same attack.
409. April 10 - Militants wounded seven employees working in the North
Oil Company when they attacked their vehicle.
410. April 14 - A convoy of road tankers from Iran was ambushed and the
drivers, five Iranians and one Iraqi, were abducted near the town of
Qada' Khanaqin. The following day an Iraqi National Guard patrol found
the bodies of the drivers.
411. April 14 - A road tanker supplying fuel to coalition forces near
Hadithah was destroyed by a roadside IED. The driver and escort were killed.
412. April 15 - A roadside IED destroyed a fuel tanker supplying fuel to
the coalition forces. The incident occurred on the highway near the
Japanese bridge in the al-Saklaweya region. The driver and escort was
killed in the attack.
413. April 15 - A vehicle of the Oil Ministry was attacked by insurgents
in al-Tamah quarter but the passengers escaped.
414. April 15 - Insurgents attacked an Iraqi military base in Mosul with
VBIEDs constructed from hijacked fuel tankers. Six Iraqi soldiers were
killed in the attack.
415. April 17 - One person was killed and four others were wounded when
a suicide bomber detonated his IED that was incorporated into a fuel
tanker near an Iraqi army base in the city of Mosul.
416. April 19 - An insurgent suicide VBIED bomber rammed his car into a
fuel tanker, killing 10 people and wounding 21 in the southern Jadidah
district of Baghdad.
417. April 24 - A suicide VBIED, constructed from a hi-jacked fuel
tanker, was detonated on the outskirts of ar-Ramadi City killing six
people and wounding another 25.
418. April 29 - An oil pipeline was ruptured near al-Musayyib, about 30
miles south of Baghdad, sending up a large plume of black smoke. The
pipeline carries oil from Daura refinery in Baghdad to al- Musayyib
power station.
419. April 29 - Insurgents abducted in Bayji the commander of the
Facilities Protection Service (FPS) of the Bayji refinery and his driver.
420. April 29 - A large group of insurgents travelling in about 30
vehicles attacked a convoy of 16 fuel tankers and kidnapped the drivers
and escorts on a main road near the city of Samarra. The vehicles and
their loads were were set alight and destroyed.
421. April 30 - A stolen fuel tanker laden with explosives and chlorine
gas was detonated by a suicide bomber near a restaurant west of
ar-Ramadi, killing six people and wounding 10 more.
422. May 2 - Suspected Sunni insurgents hijacked four fuel tanker near
al-Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad. The insurgents killed the four
drivers and took the tankers wither cargo intact.
423. May 4 - Armed insurgents attacked a convoy of 51 fuel tankers and
set them on fire on the highway between Bayji and Samarra. The tankers
were loaded with oil products from the country?s main refinery complex
in Bayji and were reported to be on their way to Ramadi west of Baghdad.
The two cities are on the route between the refineries and the Turkish
borders. The fate of the divers is currently not known.
424. May 4 - A roadside IED detonated as a road tanker was passing,
wounding the driver and setting the vehicle on fire in Mosul. The
vehicle and its load were destroyed.
425. May 7 - Four Iraqi insurgents were arrested after Iraqi troops
found a large IED planted under an oil pipeline in northern Iraq that
carries crude oil to Turkey. About 350 kilograms of TNT were discovered
under a stretch of the pipeline in the al-Kasak area, some 80 kilometres
west of Mosul. The explosives were removed and safely destroyed.
426. May 12 - A suicide VBIED, constructed from a road tanker, detonated
at a police checkpoint on a bridges in a Shi'ite area south of Baghdad,
killing 22 people and wounding 60.
427. May 14 - Insurgents abducted nine people from a mini-bus on their
way to work at the Bayji oil refinery.
428. May 17 - Three fuel tanker drivers were killed after they were
attacked on a road between Mosul and Kirkuk.
429. May 18 - An engineer of the Northern Oil Company was wounded along
with two other civilians in a bombing targeting his residence in Kirkuk.
430. May 19 - A roadiside IED in Hawijah wounded four oil employees who
were driving past as it detonated.
431. May 20 - A suicide VBIED constructed from a hijacked road tanker
killed at least two police officers near a checkpoint outside an open
market in ar-Ramadi. Nine other nine officers were wounded. Police
opened fire on the vehcile as it approached the checkpoint but the
bomber still managed to initiate the device.
432. May 20 - Militants attacked the Oil Protection Force (OPF) patrol
while others detonated an IED under an oil pipeline in a complex attack
near Kirkuk. The attack targeted a patrol of the 1st Infrastructure
Brigade (Oil Protection) during the early hours of 20 May near the
village of al-Safra on the Kirkuk-Baiji highway, (65 km) southwest of
Kirkuk. Whilst engaged in an exchange of SAF, a second insurgent group
placed an explosive charge under the pipeline which detonated, rupturing
it over a 2m segment.
433. May 20 - Insurgents ruptured an oil by-products pipeline on fire
when they detonated an IED beneath it in the village of Safra, 65 km (40
miles) southwest of Kirkuk. The pipeline is utilized by the Northern Oil
Company Ltd.
434. May 21 - Insurgents sabotaged a disused oil well in northern Iraq
early in the morning, causing a significant fire. The well is owned by
the Northern Oil Company Ltd. An IED attached to to the well functioned
at about 04:00hrs LT in the Hanjira area, about 25 kilometres (12 miles)
northwest of Kirkuk.
435. May 28 - Three soldiers of the Oil Protection Force (OPF) guarding
an oil pipeline in Kirkuk were injured.
436. June 1 - An unconfirmed number of security personnel from the Oil
Protection Force (OPF) were ambushed and kidnapped by insurgents on the
main road to the south-west of Kirkuk.
437. June 4 - A roadside IED detonated while a road tanker was passing
it in centre (financial district) of western Mosul. The tanker caught
fire and was destroyed and the driver was injured.
438. June 4 - One civilian was killed and another wounded when a guard
assigned to protect oil establishments in Kut opened fire on masses of
people gathered in front of a new petrol station.
439. June 5 - A fuel tanker was damaged beyond repair and a fuel retail
outlet damaged near the US Forward Operating Base at al-Mahmudiyah. An
IED, estimated to incorporate about 5Kg of explosives, detonated in the
cab of the vehicle.
440. June 5 - Insurgents attacked an oil pipeline near Bayji.The device
ruptured the pipeline, setting fire to the resulatant oil spill.
441. June 9 - A suicide vehicle constructed using a road tanker
detonated at an Iraqi army checkpoint outside in the town of
al-Iskandariyah, killing at least Iraqi 13 soldiers.
442. June 11 - Ten people died in an explosion after a fuel tanker
loaded with gasoline, was deliberately crashed into the Tikrit police
command, destroying its two-storey building.
443. June 16 - Three men belonging from the Oil Protection Force
(OPF)were wounded when a roadside IED detonated near their patrol
vehicle on the Riadh-Kirkuk road.
444. June 20 - Insurgents attacked and ruptured a domestic gas pipeline
that feeds power stations in northern Iraq.
445. June 21 - A suicide truck constructed from a oil tanker was
detonated south Kirkuk, killing 12 people and wounding 70, including
policemen and local politicians.
446. June 22 - In southern Baghdad, US soldiers on a routine patrol
searched a suspicious fuel tanker and discovered it had been converted
into a VBIED. The explosive charge consisted of 14 x 155 mm artillery
shells.
447. June 23 - Two officers of the Oil protection Force (OPF), assigned
to protect oil pipelines were wounded during an attack on their post 25
miles west of Kirkuk.
448. June 25 - Fifteen people were killed when a suicide bomber ploughed
a VBIED constructed from a fuel tanker into the police headquarters of
the northern Iraqi town of Bayji. Another 50 people, mostly civilians,
were wounded in the attack.
449. June 29 - An IED detonated under an oil pipeline in the al-Mowehlah
area of Abu Haswah south of Baghdad, spilling crude oil and sparking a
large fire.
450. July 1 - Insurgents attacked a fuel outlet with multiple IED's
which resulted in total destruction. The incident occurred in the small
Sunni town of Tall al Mishayah, north of Baghdad. There were no casualties.
451. July 1 - in Kirkuk, an Iraqi soldier assigned to bolster local Oil
Protection Force (OPF) personnel was fatally shot by insurgents.
452. July 1 - Coalition forces neutralised an IED that had been intended
to sabotage an oil pipeline southwest of Kirkuk.
453. July 3 - Insurgents hijacked four oil tanker trucks that were
carrying gasoline to Baghdad on the highway north of Hilla.
454. July 6 - Insurgents detonated a roadside IED near an Iraqi Oil
Protection Force (OPF) patrol vehicle near Kirkuk, killing one soldier
and injuring another three, including an officer.
455. July 11 - Oil Protection Force (OPF) guards clashed with smugglers
and confiscated four tankers full of crude oil near a pipeline
connecting the Luhais and Rumaylah North oil fields (50 km west of
Basrah). There were no casualties in the incident.
456. July 11 - A coast guard was wounded during clashes with armed oil
smugglers in the Shatt Al-Arab waterway near the port of Abu Al-Khasib
(20 km south east of Basrah).
457. July 12 - In Mosul, the body of an Oil Protection Force (OPF) guard
was found on 12 July. Yassin Mohasen Aayed, was killed by gunmen in
al-Jesr al-Khames in western Mosul.
458. July 14 - An Iraqi oil tanker was destroyed during a US airstrike
in the Shiite area of al-Ubaidi in east Baghdad.
459. July 17 - Just outside the northern town of Bayji, a Turkish truck
driver died when a roadside IED targeted his vehicle. The vehicle was
destroyed in the ensuing fire.
460. July 18 - In al-Latifiya insurgents hijacked a convoy of three
tanker trucks carrying crude oil to the ad-Daura refinery. They killed
the drivers took the vehicles wither cargo.
461. July 23 - three employees of Iraqi Oil Ministry were killed and
another injured in a small-arms attack on their vehicle in Baghdad.
462. September 18 - Iraq's northern oil export pipeline to Turkey was
badly damaged in a sabotage attack.
463. October 19 - insurgents blew up a pipeline near Kirkuk that carried
oil to the Bayji refinery.
464. Nov. 11 - An explosion damaged a pipeline near the northern city of
Kirkuk.
465. Dec. 7 - An oil pipeline was bombed near Al-Fatah, 75 miles west of
Kirkuk.
2008
466. Jan. 7 - An explosion at a fuel storage tank caused a huge blaze at
the Bayji refinery, injuring at least 36 workers.
467. Feb 10 - A car bomb exploded at a power station in Mosul, killing
four civilians and causing power outages.
468. Feb. 11 - An explosion struck a gas pipeline transporting unrefined
gas from Kirkuk to the Bayji refinery.
469. March 27 - Gunmen blew up an oil pipeline in Zubair area west of
Basra.
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