Bombs in Daura refinery intensify security scare
Four bombs found in Baghdad's main refinery could have caused massive damage, the third inside job on Iraq's oil sector in four months.![](https://cdn.iraqoilreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/zubairtank_resizedforweb.jpg)
Smoke billows from the Zubair tank farm June 5, 2011, after a bomb exploded on a storage tank. (Source: Olive Group incident report)
BAGHDAD - In the past 10 days, four bombs were planted inside Iraq's second-largest refinery, in central Baghdad, in what investigators are considering another inside job.
One bomb exploded on an empty storage tank. Authorities discovered and dismantled another three, one of which, a source familiar with the refinery said, could have taken as much as a 75 percent of the refinery offline, which has a capacity of 210,000 barrels per day (bpd).
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