Rockets target US oil company site in southern Iraq

No damage or casualties reported after projectiles land near site of oilfield service company Halliburton in Basra.

Halliburton is an American oil service provider working in the Zubair oilfield, which is operated by the Italian energy company ENI, or Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi.

Monday’s attack was the first since last summer to target US oil companies working in the oil-rich south.

A rocket struck an oil-drilling site in Basra last June, landing inside a compound housing energy giant Exxon Mobil, Shell and ENI. Three local workers were wounded in that attack.

US workers were evacuated from the site after it was hit.

Iran-backed paramilitary groups have regularly been rocketing and shelling bases in Iraq – which host US forces – and the area around the US Embassy in Baghdad.

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