The pipeline carries oil from the Kirkuk oil fields in northern Iraq to the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
Explosion in southeastern Turkey has close down a key Iraq oil pipeline. (Consultant Symbol)
An explosion has close down a pipeline in southeastern Turkey that carries oil from Iraq to global markets, officers and information experiences stated.
The blast past due on Tuesday close to town of Pazarcik in Kahramanmaras province led to an enormous hearth that compelled government to additionally close down a freeway, the state-run Anadolu Company reported.
No person was once harm within the explosion.
The pipeline carries oil from the Kirkuk oil fields in northern Iraq to the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
Turkey’s pipeline corporate, BOTAS, stated the fireplace was once extinguished and that operations would resume “once imaginable after the important measures are taken.”
The reason for the explosion was once underneath investigation.
Kurdish rebels who’ve led an armed insurgency in opposition to the Turkish state since 1984, have up to now bombed pipelines within the area, together with the Kirkuk-to-Ceyhan pipeline.
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