Bombing of Yemen's main oil pipeline halts crude flows - officials


  • World
  • Thursday, 26 Dec 2013

SANAA (Reuters) - Tribesmen bombed Yemen's main oil pipeline and it will take several days to repair it and resume crude pumping, oil and local officials said.

The attack, in the Wadi Obaida area of the central oil-producing province of Maarib, halted oil flows from the Maarib fields to the Ras Isa oil terminal on the Red Sea, they said.

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