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Associate Director-General announced in Baiji Abdelkader Saab on Friday, to restart the refinery needed to check and find out their needs and damages, asserting that it would not be close ", adding that security incidents have led to significant damage at the refinery, an oil expert predicted the refinery needed nine months to restore production, confirmed that the Iraqi experience especially in refineries and not in need of foreign companies to run the refinery.
Saab said in an interview (press term), that "security incidents that occurred in the refinery and operations against militants and try to control it without success, led to significant damage in."
Saab said that "tanks of the refinery were full of product from albanzin, kerosine, and because the security situation was not regular fire drained and not nitrogen and dump fuel in an orderly, leaving the water and oxygen lines and carrier they corrode from the inside."
He is difficult to stop military operations and us need to check for the refinery ", stating the need to" bring life to the water station in the region affected the Shaweesh re water and electricity will life to the liquidator ".
Anticipating difficult, that "there is no great harm in technical equipment but some of the tanks were filled with burned at the site of the Salah al-Din in refining the refinery", pointing out that "operational units remained intact, along with the equipment and control units but need to check for this first perception of reality."
Saab said it "cannot establish a timeline to begin work on the refinery, because we don't know the situation there, but these initial perceptions", stating that "the liquidator and the approximately 9600 factor within the project of Indochine, and you should bring life to the buildings and the residential compound for employees of the refinery."
An oil expert predicted said manaa Abdullah Al-Obeidi, a Blaupunkt megabass former Director-General of the Northern oil company's (long press), the "Baiji needed nine months to restore production as a result of damages".
He said Al-Obeidi, to run during the nine-month period will depend on the improvement in the security situation, and to ensure access to raw materials and replace materials destroyed, condensing and issues analysis and hydrogenation of the companies liquidated established within three months ".
Al-Obeidi said, "we don't need to restart but tube material quality and modern, it initially will be zero during the first months after screening and detection," he said, adding that "the Iraqi experience sufficient to run the refinery and private workers they don't need refineries to foreign companies to run, I am sure that the filter is capable of operating staff and enough experience."
Al-Obeidi, said that "the lines of the refinery with Kirkuk or Baghdad are improper, but running the refinery will initially allow trucks from transporting oil derivatives to provinces that provide eight initially without relying on the pipe transport routes", pointing out that "today there is damage to the lengths of the pipes inside the refinery but modest."
Al-Obeidi said, "the experience of Iraq oil for the refineries that make them able to start from scratch, according to the vision and plans subscribe to other Iraqi refineries as session and Basra with the improvement of the security situation."
The Ministry of Defence announced, on (November 20, 2014), the purge of the security forces and the crowd of ways in Baiji and siege of the liquidator in the judiciary, with the work focused on three areas of the judiciary, the oil Minister and the Governor of the Salahuddin commended the efforts of the leadership of Saladin and the popular crowd in the fight against the "terrorists."
Oil Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi Park, in (November 19, 2014), to the Iraqi people and armed forces to liberate a Biggie and the siege of his refinery petroleum with the engineering and technical staffs in the Ministry will start the rehabilitation and operation of the refinery after completing security procedures.
Iraqi oil Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi had visited Baiji in Salahuddin province on 11/9/2014 reviewed and inspected the refinery and all installations and high national spirit alive as members and protect Baiji under extraordinary circumstances in a zone of major military operations to fight terrorist bands daash.
A security source in Salahuddin province said, on Saturday (November 15, 2014), security forces entered the Baiji North of Salah al-Din, (170 km north of Baghdad), stressing that the counter-terrorism forces who led the liberalization process with the docked operations of which have survived in the drained for several months, adding that security forces had dismantled an explosive device and 600 houses bomb during the cleansing operation of the refinery and the road leading to it.
The Organization (daash) imposed on (11 June 2014), full control over the city of Tikrit, (170 kilometers) North of Baghdad, and a role, East of the city, the hometown of Izzat Al-Douri, without a fight, spend sharqat, (120 km north of Tikrit), with police forces and clans of expulsion of dhuluiya, (100 km south of Tikrit).
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