The Ministry of Oil intends to use unmanned aircraft to monitor and protect Iraqi oil production and export lines.
The plan comes a day after the Ministry of Oil announced its intention to “establish an integrated system for pipelines to transport oil derivatives throughout the country to achieve high flow in the pumping and transport of these products in order to meet the needs of all Iraqi provinces and cities.
Oil Minister Jabbar Ali al-Allaibi said during his chairmanship of the operations chamber of the ministry that “the repeated sabotage operations that hit the infrastructure of the transport networks of crude oil and pipelines of oil exports and a number of pipelines for the transport of oil products by terrorist gangs, as well as the aging of pipelines has greatly affected the activities of the ministry in this field”.
