Fire at Basra offshore oil export terminal briefly halts crude loading
16 Jul 201912:28 PM
Fire at Basra offshore oil export terminal briefly halts crude loading
Reuters
A fire at Iraq’s southern Basra offshore oil export terminal briefly halted crude loading operations on Tuesday but was put out and loading resumed, Iraqi oil officials said. 

The fire occurred in a residential section of the terminal accommodating workers and did not directly damage oil infrastructure, a port official and sources in the Basra Oil Company said.