Basra oil export terminal will stop loading 24 hours

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Twilight News / Two sources said the state -run South Oil Co. said Iraq 's main export terminal off the coast of the southern city of Basra , the country will stop loading operations for 24 hours beginning at midnight Tuesday because of the installation of a new pipeline that feeds the facility.

The estimated energy load harbor by about 1.8 million barrels per day.

The sources said marine loading operations in the three berths connected to a single port of Basra will not be affected.

Iraq issued the second largest oil producer within the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) after Saudi Arabia record amounts of crude from the southern ports amounted to 3.51 million barrels per day in December / December.

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