{"id":389263,"date":"2020-12-14T08:44:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T03:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=389263"},"modified":"2020-12-14T09:58:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T04:28:24","slug":"iran-mostly-contains-fire-after-southwest-oil-pipeline-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iran-mostly-contains-fire-after-southwest-oil-pipeline-spill\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran mostly contains fire after southwest oil pipeline spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI (Reuters) &#8211; Firefighters have contained most of a blaze that broke out after a pipeline carrying crude oil to Iran&#8217;s second-largest refinery ruptured on Sunday because of a landslide, the head of the state company in charge of oil pipelines said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most of the fire &#8230; has been contained and operations teams are repairing the damaged section of the pipeline,&#8221; Qasem Arab Yarmohammadi told the Oil Ministry&#8217;s news agency, SHANA. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Landslides have a long history in this area,&#8221; said Arab Yarmohammadi, chief executive of the Iranian Oil Pipeline and Telecommunications Company. <\/p>\n<p>Khosro Kiani, an emergency official in southwestern Iran, where the blaze occurred, said earlier that the oil had spilled down a hard-to-access valley, which firefighting equipment could not reach, the semi-official news agency Tasnim reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI (Reuters) &#8211; Firefighters have contained most of a blaze that broke out after a pipeline carrying crude oil to Iran&#8217;s second-largest refinery ruptured on Sunday because of a landslide, the head of the state company in charge of oil pipelines said. &#8220;Most of the fire &#8230; has been contained and operations teams are repairing the damaged section of the pipeline,&#8221; Qasem Arab Yarmohammadi told the Oil Ministry&#8217;s news agency, SHANA. &#8220;Landslides have a long history in this area,&#8221; said Arab Yarmohammadi, chief executive of the Iranian Oil Pipeline and Telecommunications Company. Khosro Kiani, an emergency official in southwestern Iran, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}