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Pipe flow cut by explosion
China News.Net
Thursday 7th August, 2008
Oil flow through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline was cut Wednesday after an explosion sparked a fire in a pipe section in eastern Turkey.
The incident occurred around midnight near the eastern town of Refahiye, in Erzincan province.
The possibility of sabotage has been ruled out as a fault in the system was detected before the blast.
The fire was still burning on Wednesday.
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