{"id":92129,"date":"2009-12-21T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/attack-on-iraqi-pipeline-halts-oil-exports-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-21T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T15:57:00","slug":"attack-on-iraqi-pipeline-halts-oil-exports-for-fourth-time-in-six-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/92129","title":{"rendered":"Attack On Iraqi Pipeline Halts Oil Exports For Fourth Time In Six Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b2f93b60000000000ce9a1f\" border=\"0\" alt=\"AP Iraq Pipeline\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.khaleejtimes.com\/DisplayArticleNew.asp?section=business&amp;xfile=data\/business\/2009\/december\/business_december473.xml\">AFP<\/a> reports that oil exports in northern Iraq were sabotaged Sunday after an attack on a pipeline caused a large oil spill.<\/p>\n<p>The attack marks the fourth incident in six weeks, and comes just a week after contracts for seven oil fields were awarded to international consortiums.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Beefed up security had limited the number of attacks to the pipeline in recent years, but after 18 months without disturbance, attacks began again in late October.<\/p>\n<p>These attacks come just days after international oil firms <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-second-iraq-oil-auction-of-2009-2009-12\">spent billions<\/a> securing oil rights long into the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/attack-on-iraqi-pipeline-halts-oil-exports-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-second-iraq-oil-auction-of-2009-2009-12\">The Iraqi Oil Auction Was Like A High-Stakes American Idol<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-growing-crisis-with-iraqs-oil-2009-4\">The Growing Crisis With Iraq&#8217;s Oil<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/_Zxlh0G_-BY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP reports that oil exports in northern Iraq were sabotaged Sunday after an attack on a pipeline caused a large oil spill. The attack marks the fourth incident in six weeks, and comes just a week after contracts for seven oil fields were awarded to international consortiums.&nbsp; Beefed up security had limited the number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}