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South Caucasus Pipeline Repairs Near Completion After Explosion

A major explosion on 29 May on the South Caucasus gas pipeline near Erzurum in northeast Turkey halted gas supplies of around 15mn cmd from Azerbaijan. The explosion destroyed over 130ms of the gas pipeline, which carries gas from Baku via Tbilisi to Erzurum. On 5 June Rovnag Abdullayev, president of Azerbaijan’s state firm Socar, said that most of the repair work was complete...