{"id":462700,"date":"2022-01-19T16:26:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T10:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=462700"},"modified":"2022-01-19T16:33:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T11:03:54","slug":"explosion-in-turkey-shuts-down-key-pipeline-carrying-oil-from-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/explosion-in-turkey-shuts-down-key-pipeline-carrying-oil-from-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion in Turkey shuts down key pipeline carrying oil from Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion has shut down a pipeline in southeastern Turkey that carries oil from Iraq to world markets, officials and news reports said.<\/p>\n<p>The blast late Tuesday near the town of Pazarcik in Kahramanmaras province caused a huge fire that forced authorities to also shut down a highway, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. <\/p>\n<p>No one was hurt in the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>The pipeline carries oil from the Kirkuk oil fields in northern Iraq to the Turkish port of Ceyhan.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s pipeline company, BOTAS, said the fire was extinguish and that operations would resume as soon as possible after the necessary measures are taken.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the explosion was under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Kurdish rebels who have led an armed insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984, have in the past bombed pipelines in the region, including the Kirkuk-to-Ceyhan pipeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion has shut down a pipeline in southeastern Turkey that carries oil from Iraq to world markets, officials and news reports said. The blast late Tuesday near the town of Pazarcik in Kahramanmaras province caused a huge fire that forced authorities to also shut down a highway, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. No one was hurt in the explosion. The pipeline carries oil from the Kirkuk oil fields in northern Iraq to the Turkish port of Ceyhan. Turkey&#8217;s pipeline company, BOTAS, said the fire was extinguish and that operations would resume as soon as possible after the necessary measures [&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":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462700","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=462700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}