TEHRAN, Sept 3: Small bombs damaged 15 pipelines and one oil well in restive southwestern Iran this week, an official said on Saturday, but quick repairs meant crude output from OPEC’s second exporter was unaffected.
Ahmad Tahampesar, operations manager of the state’s Karun Oil and Gas Exploration Company, denied earlier media reports that saboteurs had shut down five wells in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, Iran’s oil heartland. “It was repaired by last night,” he said, when asked about the damaged well. —Reuters
