UPDATE: Twin attacks rock Kirkuk energy sites
Militants invade a gas compressor station and major oil field in Kirkuk province, killing police and oil workers and blowing up a storage tank.
Fire burns from an oil storage tank after a militant attack at the Bai Hassan South oil field in Kirkuk's Dibis district, July 31, 2016. (STAFF/Iraq Oil Report)
UPDATES:
- Local IS sleeper cell blamed for twin attacks on Kirkuk energy plants
- Further detail of how IS stormed AB2 and Bai Hassan facilities
- Severe damage to Bai Hassan South complex, repairs to take “a long time”
- Gas redirected from AB2 gas station to AB3, mitigating impact
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