SYRIAN OIL PIPELINES
Hopes For Start On Repairs (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.AJ (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 20. Hope is growing in Bagdad that survey parties and repair teams will move into Syria in the New Year to begin work on the Syrian oil pipelines. which were blown up on November 3. As a result of that the flow of Iraqi oil to the Mediterranean was stooped. The Bagdad correspondent of the ••Financial Times” says that if the repair teams go in. there is little doubt that within a reasonable time an emergency system could be operated to pipe through, say, 30 per cent, of the normal oil flow. The same newspaper’s correspondent in Beirut quotes an official Syrian spokesman as saying that Syria would welcome representatives of the Iraq Petroleum Company to Damascus tn discuss the repairs of pumping stations and pipelines. So far the detailed damage to stations has not been established. The spokesman did not deny that the Syrian Government was responsible. He also said that it was likely that the contract for a new £6.000,000 refinery would be given to Czechoslovakia. and that the British tender for the work would be rejected.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28157, 21 December 1956, Page 13
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