NYT: ISIS has taken over Iraq's largest Oil refinery

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Moderate NYT news seems to be behind a pay wall, FOX is reporting they have taken over 75% of refinery.

Extremists Said to Take Control of Iraq's Biggest Oil Refinery
In-Depth-New York Times-4 hours ago


Militants, Iraq security forces clash at country's largest oil refinery

Published June 18, 2014

Oct. 6, 2003: In this file photo, an oil refinery is seen in the city of Beiji, home to Iraq's largest oil refinery. (AP)


An official at Iraq’s largest domestic oil refinery says Sunni militants have taken over 75 percent of the facility following clashes with Iraqi security forces.
"The militants have managed to break in to the refinery. Now they are in control of the production units, administration building and four watch towers. This is 75 percent of the refinery," an official speaking from inside the refinery in Beiji told Reuters on Wednesday.
A state oil official told The Wall Street Journal that two fuel-storage tanks were in flames after hours of fighting before dawn Wednesday, some 155 miles north of the capital, Baghdad. The official said militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) targeted the oil refinery with mortars and machine guns.
In response, Iraqi security forces and helicopter gunships bombarded positions of the militants inside the refinery, another state oil official added.
But Iraq’s government denied reports that the facility has been overrun.



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Exports of Basrah Light crude, the country’s main grade, may reach about 2.8 million barrels a day next month, according to a preliminary loading plan obtained by Bloomberg News on June 16. That’s 11 percent more than this year’s average and would come close to matching a three-decade high reached in February. OPEC’s second-largest producer shipped 5.43 million barrels from Basrah on June 11, Iraqi Oil Minister Abdul Kareem al-Luaibi said in Vienna the following day.