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To: Alex who wrote (15941)	8/15/1998 9:11:00 PM
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Friday, August 14, 1998 at: Lon 5:14 p.m. Pra 6:14 p.m. NY 12:14 p.m. HK 12:14 a.m. <<- Index \|\| Next article ->> Daqing Oil Field Workers Work Round the Clock to Stop Raging Nen River BEIJING -- (Reuters) Flood waters on the Nen River in northeast China have burst a dike threatening the nearby Daqing oil field -- the country's largest, a local official and Xinhua news agency said on Friday. (Pictured, children live in temporary tents in Wukou near Panyang Lake in Jiangxi province Aug. 13. Chinese officials say floods have affected one-fifth of the population.) Workers at the one million barrels per day Daqing oilfield were working round the clock to build new flood defenses after the raging Nen ripped a 500-metre (1,640-ft) hole in a dike on Friday morning, the official said by telephone. "The breach is too big so it can't be blocked," the official said. He declined to provide further details. The state-run Xinhua news agency said most of Daqing's nearly 20,000 wells were still operating normally. Daqing said on Thursday it closed more than 1,000 oil wells because of water logging after recent floods but an official declined to say what impact the closures would have on output. More than 20,000 people were evacuated from the area before the dike burst and some 200,000 people were working on Daqing city's flood defenses, Xinhua said. Dikes near Daqing have been reinforced with 11.38 million sandbags and 282.3 km (175.4 miles) of secondary dikes have also been reinforced, Xinhua said. Daqing oil field produces more than 50 million tonnes of crude oil annually, accounting for more than one-third of the nation's total petroleum output. In 1969, a flood hit the oil field causing a number of deaths, but oil production did not stop, Xinhua said. ( (c) 1998 Reuters)