A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck in the copper-producing north, killing at least two people, injuring more than 100, flattening houses, causing power outages and panic, and disrupting output at a number of mines.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has cut its full-year forecast to 1.7% and is predicting 2.3% for 2012, barely in line with trend.Some of this weakness was attributed to the impact of the Japanese earthquake in March, which disrupted output in the world's third-largest economy.
The entire prison could go on lockdown, effectively halting production; or prison guards could suddenly swoop in and search an entire manufacturing facility, disrupting output.
Arguably, the recent surge in wheat prices (prompted by an Australian drought) is an early indicator of the potential for climate change to disrupt food output.
Iraq was the only OPEC member to show a decline in output last month, as sabotage disrupted production, according to a Bloomberg survey of oil companies, producers and analysts.
It can be checked that cutting any link in Figure 2C will totally disrupt the output-producing ability.
So far the terrorists have not seriously disrupted the output of the world's biggest oil producer.
Britain has just shown how a two-day strike at a Scottish refinery affected deliveries to petrol stations and, more seriously, disrupted oil output.
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) — Nigerian militants attacked oil facilities on Monday, killing a guard and forcing the evacuation of nearly 100 workers, in a third day of fighting with security forces that has disrupted oil output.
The strikes disrupted the output from the company, Kazmunaigaz, but did not spread to Western operations, like Chevron's Tengiz oil field, not far away in the same arid, flat expanse on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea that is the source of Kazakhstan's oil wealth.
