By Steve Bryant
Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Turkey expects a pipeline carrying oil from Azerbaijan to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan to reopen in a week after a blaze earlier this month, a spokesman for the Energy Ministry said.
Inspections of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, run by BP Plc and partners, revealed no evidence of a bomb on the section in eastern Turkey that was engulfed in fire after a blast, spokesman Akif Sam said in a telephone interview. ``We think it was probably a malfunction,'' he said.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, had claimed responsibility for the pipeline explosion.
To contact the reporter on this story: Steve Bryant in Ankara at sbryant5@bloomberg.net.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
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