Vital oil route ’set to reopen’

A vital oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea oilfields, through Georgia, to Turkey’s west coast is set to reopen soon, according to Turkey’s energy minister.

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) line, the world’s second-longest pipeline, was closed down on August 5 after an explosion in a pump at a section in eastern Turkey sparked a fire.

It took firefighters six days to put out the resulting blaze.

“An intensive effort is under way… production will begin again in a few days if there are no problems,” Hilmi Guler, Turkey’s energy minister said in televised remarks on Monday.

Al-Jazeera