Blasts hit oil, gas pipelines in Yemen

Two bomb blasts struck Yemen's gas and oil pipelines that link central fields with maritime terminals on the Gulf of Aden, officials and a company statement yesterday said.
The first explosion early yesterday sabotaged the country's sole pipeline transporting gas from fields in Marib to the southern Belhaf export terminal, Yemen LNG Company said.
It went off 35 Kilometres north of Balhaf Liquefication Plant, in which France's Total has an almost 40 percent stake, the company said, adding that it "caused no victims."
The explosion occurred in the province of Shabwa, where al-Qaeda militants remain active, and through which the 320-kilometre 38-inch pipeline travels, a security official said.
The second blast hit an oil pipeline operated by Korea National Oil Corporation, also in Shabwa, a local official said, adding that suspected Qaeda militants were behind the night time attack.