Secondary Iraq pipeline hit, exports normal

Saboteurs have blown up a section of a secondary pipeline feeding the export and domestic oil network in northern Iraq, oil officials said on Saturday.
Exports to Turkey's Ceyhan port remained normal at 300,000 barrels per day (bpd), the officials said, adding the fire around Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit was brought under control on Friday.
The pipeline runs from an oil field near Tikrit further to the north, feeding the 350,000 bpd Baiji refinery and the main export pipeline to Ceyhan.
Flows through the Iraq-Turkey export pipeline sometimes reach 600,000 barrels a day, depending on the pipeline's condition and the lines feeding it.
Saboteurs, who are rarely caught, have relentlessly hit Iraq's oil infrastructure after last year's US-led invasion, disrupting exports and refinery operations.
Iraq also exports around 1.6 million bpd from two offshore terminals in the Gulf. Sabotage attacks have decreased in the south after anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr agreed to end a Shi'ite uprising two months ago.