In Port News 13/07/2016
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Saif Hameed and Stephen Kalin in BAGHDAD, Keith Wallis and Florence Tan in SINGAPORE; Editing by David Goodman)
Two supertankers are loading crude at Iraq’s southern port of Basra, resuming operations after a brief outage caused by an oil pipeline leak that has been repaired, shipping sources said.
Supertankers Front Commodore and New Frontier are currently loading oil at the Basra Oil Terminal, they said.
Basra Light crude oil loading had been suspended at two export terminals in Iraq’s main oil export port on Sunday, stoking worries of a lengthy outage and driving up global crude prices. [O/R]
However, on Monday, the Iraqi oil ministry said the leak at Iraq’s southern port of Basra had been repaired and pumping had resumed without affecting exports.
“At eleven o’clock this morning (12.00 noon ET), oil pumping was resumed through a number of docks in Basra port after repairing a simple leakage that occurred in an oil pipeline,” ministry spokesman Asim Jihad told Reuters by phone on Monday.
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Saif Hameed and Stephen Kalin in BAGHDAD, Keith Wallis and Florence Tan in SINGAPORE; Editing by David Goodman)
