IRAQ PLANS TO START FILLING NEW IRAQI-SAUDI PIPELINE IN AUGUST

Construction of the new 500,000 b/d pipeline link between the southern Iraqi oilfields and Saudi Arabia's East-West trunk export line to Yanbu' on the Red Sea coast is now virtually completed and fill-up operations will start in early August. This was disclosed by a senior Iraqi oil official in an interview with MEES executive Editor Walid Khadduri last week. The official indicated that the Iraqi-Saudi pipeline link...