Iraq's oil pipeline in south repaired

Crews finished repairing a main pipeline in southern Iraq on Wednesday after sabotage stopped operations for three days and forced exports to run at a reduced rate, oil officials said.
"The repairs are complete. The general director has yet to give the go-ahead to start operations," said a South Oil Company official, who declined to be identified.
"The order could come as early as tonight," he said.
Oil from southern fields to the country's two offshore terminals was flowing through another smaller 42-inch pipeline at around one million barrels per day (bpd).
The two pipelines have a combined capacity of around 2.5 million bpd.
Three oil tankers were loading on Wednesday at the Khor al-Amaya terminal and the larger Basra terminal, formerly known as Mina al-Bakr, at about 1.3 million bpd, including crude from storage, another official said.