Last year saboteurs knocked out a Shell Oil pumping station in the south of the country that will take 18 months to repair.
This turned into a crisis last January when Belarus started to siphon the oil off the pipes and Gazprom then cut the oil from pumping.
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Hurricane Katrina roared into already tight oil markets, damaging much of America's oil-pumping and -refining capacity, and another hurricane, Rita, threatened to wreak more havoc along the Gulf coast this week.
The giant Kirkuk oil field is pumping 500, 000 bpd, compared with 850, 000 before the war.
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Some of these beasts pay out more cash than they are earning from pumping oil and gas.
Earlier, Sudan said it has restarted pumping oil from Heglig, following the recent withdrawal of Southern Sudanese troops.
Meanwhile, the economy has shown early signs of bouncing back, as the country's plentiful oil wells begin pumping again.
The Saudis claimed that they have started pumping oil at two new fields that were not planned to come online for three months.
The campaign forced Shell to stop pumping oil out of Ogoniland but it continues to operate pipelines in the region and spills have continued.
They have never agreed on the transit fees that Juba should pay Khartoum for pumping oil through its pipelines and using Sudan's oil export infrastructure.
Encore started working the fields a month later, pumping oil so it could generate cash for new activities, pay down debt and get that 7%-plus return.
Then, those pumping oil out of the ground saw the higher futures prices and figured, why pump it out today when it will be worth more tomorrow?
However, Saudi intelligence has been successful in subduing al Qaeda cells in the kingdom in recent years, while security at oil refineries and pumping stations has been reinforced.
In 1999, the government began pumping oil in that area, turning the war for autonomy into a war for oil, according to a United Nations report released this month.
For some months Saudi Arabia has been pumping oil at its fastest rate in 30 years to make up for Iranian crude lost to American and European sanctions, which officially started on July 1st.
The facility is key to pumping oil out of the fields, which accounted for close to half of Sudan's entire production of about 115, 000 barrels of oil per day before wells were shut down due to the conflict.
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The letter was forgotten as, on Aug. 29, 1859, Drake and Uncle Billy and his sons got feverishly busy pumping oil and filling wash tubs and whiskey barrels (why we speak of "barrels" of oil today) with the black liquid.
Crude oil bulls are fading amid reports Saudi Arabia will begin pumping more crude oil in July.
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Littell says the Saudis realized their mistake and began pumping more oil in May.
Georgia is not the most direct route for pumping Azeri oil to the Mediterranean Sea.
He expects producers can keep pumping more oil for the next 20 to 30 years.
Rosneft will be pumping more oil than any other listed company.
Crude oil prices are trading lower again early Tuesday, on the China news and amid reports Saudi Arabia will begin pumping more crude oil in July.
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And a plan to start pumping Russian oil this year through a disused Israeli pipeline from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea would both ensure Israel's oil supply and help Russia break the Arab states' near-monopoly on selling oil to Asia.
Saudi Arabia is one of the few oil-producing countries not pumping at full volume.
While companies of many oil-producing nations are pumping cash into the declining oilfields of the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere, those projects haven't contributed as much crude as analysts expected.
But the minute they stopped pumping the mud, the oil came back up.
Meanwhile, oil prices rose and Yukos, which was pumping 2% of global output, saw its shares rocket.
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