VOL. XXXIV

NO. 44

5-AUGUST-1991

Iraq

Iraq Will Accord Top Priority to Repair of Gulf Oil Export Terminals

The Iraqi Ministry of Oil has issued an announcement stressing that thereconstruction of Iraq's deep-sea oil loading terminals in the Gulf - Mina al-Bakrand Khor al-Amaya - constitutes a "top priority objective" of theIraqi oil industry.

Before the start of the Iraq-Iran war in 1980 the two terminals werecapable of handling exports of over 3mn b/d - around 1.6mn b/d each. Owing thewar, the Khor...