BP turns on Georgia gas taps

File photo taken 29 December 2006 shows a Belarus worker on duty at a gas compressor station of the Yamal-Europe pipeline near the town of Nesvizh, some 130 km southwest of Minsk. Russia said 01 August 2007 that it would reduce gas supplies to Belarus by 45 percent unless bills for this year were paid, but sought to reassure European customers on supplies. AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV

VIKTOR DRACHEV

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By News wires

 14 August 2008 07:32 GMT

BP has resumed gas exports from Azerbaijan to Turkey via Georgia after halting flows two days ago due to the military conflict between Russia and Georgia.

The UK supermajor shut in the Baku-Supsa oil pipeline and the gas pipeline to Turkey early on Tuesday because of the military conflict in Georgia.

BP has reopened the gas pipeline, which turns south towards Turkey just west of the Georgian capital of Tbilisi but it is keeping the oil pipeline which continues west to Supsa closed.

US President George W. Bush said yesterday he was concerned about reports that Russian forces were blocking access to the port of Poti and blowing up Georgian vessels. Poti is about 15 kilometres north of Supsa.

"The…

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