IN PICS: 2 Iraqi Oil Wells Set ABLAZE In 'Terror Attack’ By IS Militants

Here, firefighters from the Iraqi state-owned North Oil Company put out a fire at an oil well in the northern Khabbaz oil field, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) southwest of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on December 16, 2020. - Iraqi authorities had blamed the Islamic State group (IS) for the fires which had been raging for a week. IS has previously set oil fields aflame in Iraq. (Photo by Marwan IBRAHIM / AFP)

On December 9, a source from the North Oil Company told Xinhua that IS militants had planted two bombs in the Khubbaz oilfield, some 250 km north of Iraqi capital Baghdad, and blew them up causing huge fires in the two wells. (Photo by Marwan IBRAHIM / AFP)

Two oil wells in Iraq's Kirkuk province were set ablaze by Islamic State (IS) terrorists, said Minister of Oil Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail, adding that the fires have been successfully extinguished. (Photo by Marwan IBRAHIM / AFP)

The Iraqi oil companies have managed "to extinguish the fires in the two wells of Khubbaz oilfield in Kirkuk province at an unprecedented time" on Wednesday, Xinhua news agency quoted Ismail as saying in a letter sent to Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi. (Photo by Marwan IBRAHIM / AFP)

A firefighters from the Iraqi state-owned North Oil Company stands at the scene after putting out a fire at an oil well in the northern Khabbaz oil field, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) southwest of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on December 16, 2020. - Iraqi authorities had blamed the Islamic State group (IS) for the fires which had been raging for a week. IS has previously set oil fields aflame in Iraq. (Photo by Marwan IBRAHIM / AFP)

Firefighters from the Iraqi state-owned North Oil Company walk at the scene after putting out a fire at an oil well in the northern Khabbaz oil field, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) southwest of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on December 16, 2020. - Iraq's oil installations and pipelines have been frequently attacked by extremist IS militants despite the improvement of the security situation in the country after the government declared the full defeat of terror group throughout the country late in 2017. (Photo by Marwan IBRAHIM / AFP)