Three blasts went off along the pipeline on Saturday, in Nineveh Province, which runs to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, according to security officials. The attacks did not cause any casualties.
Attacks on Iraq’s northern pipelines are not uncommon. The same pipeline was also targeted in mid-August.
The export pipeline to Turkey’s Ceyhan can carry 500,000 barrels per day but it’s a frequent target of bombings.
Iraq is heavily dependent on crude sales, which account for 95 percent of government revenues and an estimated two-thirds of gross domestic product.
Iraq has seen a surge in violence since the beginning of this year. Official figures show that more than 960 people were killed and hundreds of others wounded due to a surge in terrorist attacks across Iraq in October, making it the country’s bloodiest month since 2008.
This is while the United Nations figures suggest that July was the bloodiest month in the country since 2008, with a total of 1,057 Iraqis, including 928 civilians, killed and another 2,326 wounded in terrorist attacks.
According to the United Nations, carnage led to the death of some 5,000 people in Iraq between January and September of 2013.
A study released this month by academics based in the United States, Canada and Iraq said nearly half a million people have died due to war-related incidents in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003.