VOL. XXXI

NO. 31

9-MAY-1988

IRAQ

Iraq Builds Second Strategic Pipeline

MEES learns that Iraq has embarked on the construction of a secondnorth-south strategic pipeline that will give it even greater flexibility intransporting crude from its northern and southern fields. The new 640-km.42-inch pipeline, which will run parallel to the original line inaugurated in1975, will have a capacity of 900,000 b/d and will connect the South Rumailaoilfield to the K3 pumping station at Haditha. It is being...