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TIKRIT, Iraq, Saturday (Reuters) Oil has stopped flowing through Iraq's export pipeline to Turkey due to repairs to damage suffered after it was recently reopened, the U.S. Army said on Saturday.

"There is nothing going through the pipeline right now because repairs were needed after it reopened," Colonel Robert Nicholson, the chief engineer for the 4th Infantry Division, based in the north, told Reuters.

Nicholson said aside from technical problems from the pressure after the pipeline reopened, there was also other damage that may have been from either sabotage or looting. "One section was repaired in 10 hours and we are working on another right now," he said.

"There were two cases of unexploded bombs that were found near the pipeline," Nicholson added.

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