Iran Restarts Turkish Supply After Pipeline Blast
Supply of Iranian gas has resumed to Turkey following an explosion on the Iran-Turkey pipeline, Turkish Minister for Energy Taner Yildiz has said.
Speaking to the press yesterday, Minister Yildiz said that Iran had restarted its supply of gas through the pipeline, which was shutdown following an explosion on October 8th.
"The Turkey to Iran natural gas pipeline just started to pump this morning," Iranian news site PressTV reports today. "Turkey is currently getting natural gas from Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan and we did not have any supply problems."
The explosion, which occurred near the Iranian border, is the second of such incidents to affect Turkey in recent weeks. Last week, BP Azerbaijan said that it had restarted supply to Turkey through the South Caucasus pipeline (also known as the Baku–Tbilisi–Erzurum, or BTE, pipeline) following a reported explosion on that pipeline.
BP has not confirmed that that shutdown was as a result of terrorist activity, only saying that supply was halted following an "incident" and saying that "maintenance" was conducted on the pipeline. Supply resumed through the BTE pipeline last Tuesday (the 9th of October) after being shut down the previous week, on Thursday the 4th of October.