VOL. XLII

No 47

22-November-1999

YEMEN

Yemen痴 Oil Exports Unaffected By Pipeline Attack

A senior Yemeni oil official told MEES on 16 Novemberthat tanker loading at Ras 'Isa on the Red Sea had continued withoutinterruption despite a terrorist attack on an oil pipeline four days earlier.The 438-km. pipe, operated by the US痴 Hunt Oil, carries 185,000 b/d of crudefrom the Marib (120,000 b/d) and Jannah (65,000 b/d) oilfields. The explosion,assumed to have been carried out by disgruntled tribesmen,...