BTC oil pipeline fire extinguished: BP

Source: Reuters

ANKARA (Reuters) - A fire on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline in Turkey was extinguished on Monday, a senior source at BP, a major shareholder in the pipeline, told Reuters.

The pipeline carrying Azeri crude, which passes through Georgia, was hit by an explosion on Turkish territory two days before conflict began over the South Ossetia region.

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Kurdish separatists claimed responsibility for the explosion and said they would carry out more attacks on economic targets inside Turkey.

Military and local official sources said the fire was due to a technical error and was not due to sabotage.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLB67224120080811

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Couldn't help noticing this given the timing and the current events in Georgia.

and you'll get these hits:

http://www.stratfor.com/azerbaijan_pipeline_profits_and_territorial_tension

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:KTazi0wHaBsJ:www.thoughtleader.co.za/stevenlamini/2008/06/23/blood-oil/+BTC+oil+pipeline+oil+lobby&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=us

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13285

I don't think posts from 'antiwar.com' are encouraged here (they're libertarian paleo-conservatives) but it's interesting reading.

maybe some people will just read the headline and conclude that russia actually bombed the pipeline as georgian official liars claimed :D

Not Georgia.

i was only pointing to the fact that reuters relayed the claims of georgian official about a russian attempt to destroy the pipeline. But nothing when BP denied it. Finally, they publish a story today about BP repairing the pipeline , nothing about the location in the title. Besides i thought the damage from the PKK destruction of the pipeline was already repaired days ago?

that "that reuters relayed the claims of georgian official".

Georgian officials have been grossly economic with the truth today - Reuters went the trouble of actually retracting a news item.http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LB156487.htm

In future the claim of "Georgian officials" might possibly be treated with suspician. I'd already concluded that if the PKK could disrupt the pipeline with a fire that the Russianss were hardly likely to miss it if they did infact target it with a Mig.

My point in posting it is that there seems to be a large amount of conflict going on in the whole region and involving many different nations - and that is very worrisome.

I hope that the European diplomats help bring this to a quick close.