IRAQ-SAUDI ARABIA

Delays in Iraqi Crude Deliveries at Yanbu' 

MEES understands that - at least as far as Japanese companies are concerned customers for Iraq's Basrah Light crude at the Yanbu' terminal on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast via the recently completed 500,000 b/d Iraqi-Saudi pipeline have been notified of delays in December deliveries. The nine Japanese companies which are lifting a total of 210,000 b/d (MEES, 28 October) have apparently been informed that...