Turkish Pipeline Levels Normalise
Gas transit levels have returned to normal through Turkish pipeline, the South Caucasus pipeline, reported to have suffered an explosion last week.
The pipeline, which was shut down from Thursday, 4th of October until Tuesday the 9th of October, was reported to have been affected by terrorist activity.
Following the reported explosion, Turkish company BOTAS, which off-takes the gas, requested that delivery be halted. The supply was restarted at the company's request on Tuesday.
BP, which heads the consortium for the supply field, the Shah Deniz field in Azerbaijan, did not confirm the cause of the shut down, saying only that the pipeline was closed for maintenance following an "incident".
Today, the company reported that gas transit levels had returned to normal following the re-opening of the pipeline on Tuesday.
"Currently the delivery is carried out in normal regime," ABC.az reports BP Azerbaijan as saying.