A rocket hit a small oil refinery in northern Iraq on 29 November, causing a fire at a fuel storage tank and forcing a complete shutdown of operations after the blaze spread to a nearby pipeline network, two refinery officials said.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for attacking the Siniya refinery, in a statement posted on the group’s official channel.
It said two Katyusha rockets were used in the attack. It gave no further details on any casualties.
A spokesman for the state-run Northern Refineries, which manages a number of Iraqi refineries, earlier told Iraq’s state news agency that two rockets had hit the Siniya refinery, causing a fire that it said had been controlled.
Officials said halting operations at the Siniya refinery, which has refining capacity of 30,000 B/D, was a safety measure to prevent further damage.
“We completely shut down production units to avoid extensive damage that could result,” a chief engineer at the refinery said, speaking on condition of anonymity.