More than 300 Iraqis have been killed in bombings and attacks, and in a deadly pipeline explosion.
Oil put a brief double top in on Thursday as it pushed through and failed on that pipeline explosion report.
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In the last year alone, 29 people died in a New Zealand coal mine, 11 on a Gulf oil rig and 27 in a Mexican pipeline explosion.
Instead, he found it had failed to operate at maximum allowable operating pressure--odd, given that this pressure is usually the upper limit for safety and El Paso was under federal restrictions after an August 2000 pipeline explosion killed 12 campers in New Mexico.
When Hayward, a geologist, took over in 2007--after the Texas City refinery explosion and Alaska pipeline spill--he emphasized safety with a far greater sense of urgency.
Mr. MAHTANI: Well, Nigeria is the eighth biggest exporter in the world, and after these wave of attacks last week, which included the hostage taking and an explosion on a pipeline that fed a key export terminal, Nigeria had to shut down about 226, 000 barrels per day, that's about 10% of Nigeria's total production, which are still down.
On July 10th, up to 250 people were killed, and many more badly burned, at Adeje near Warri in southern Nigeria, when oil leaking from a damaged pipeline caught alight, causing an explosion that engulfed in fire an area four kilometres (2.5 miles) across.
Gazprom denies it was at fault and blames the explosion on poor maintenance of the pipeline.
An explosion today on the Arab Gas Pipeline forced Egypt to shut off natural gas supplies to Israel and Jordan.
The Deepwater Horizon disaster followed other failures including a leak from a pipeline in Alaska in 2006 and the Texas City refinery explosion in 2005, which killed 15 people in one of the US's worst industrial accidents of recent years.
This disrupted Azerbaijan's oil exports, already hit by an explosion earlier this month in the Turkish part of the pipeline from Baku to Ceyhan, in Turkey.
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