Rocket attack hits Ajil field
<p>The Islamic State (IS) militant group has destroyed a crucial flow tank at the Ajil oil field near Tikrit, rendering the entire field offline for at least a year.</p>
Smoke rises from the Ajeel oil field as Iraqi paramilitary forces gather in al-Hadidiya, south of Tikrit, on March 6, 2015. (THAIER AL-SUDANI/Reuters)
The Islamic State (IS) militant group has destroyed a crucial flow tank at the Ajil oil field near Tikrit, rendering the entire field offline for at least a year.
"Ajil produces oil from the wells and gathers it into one flow tank from which we used to pump the crude to Kirkuk," said a senior official from the state-run North Oil Company (NOC), which operates the field. "That flow tank does not exist anymore."
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