Separatist Kurdish rebels claimed responsibility Friday for a blast that cut a strategic oil ...

Separatist Kurdish rebels have claimed responsibility for a blast in eastern Turkey that cut oil ...

ANKARA, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - Oil flow through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline was cut Wednesday after an explosion sparked a fire in a section in eastern Turkey, local officials told Anatolia news agency.

The incident occurred around midnight in a pump at a section near the eastern town of Refahiye, in Erzincan province, the agency said.

THE HAGUE, July 28, 2008 (AFP) - The Shell oil group said Monday it had decided to reduce some of its production running through a pipeline in southern Nigeria damaged in an attack claimed by MEND fighters.

THE HAGUE, July 28, 2008 (AFP) - The Shell oil group said Monday it had decided to reduce some of its production running through a pipeline in southern Nigeria damaged in an attack claimed by MEND fighters.

SOFIA, July 25, 2008 (AFP) - Bulgaria's parliament ratified on Friday a deal with Russia to build the South Stream gas pipeline to carry Russian gas to Europe, the parliament announced.

A total of 140 deputies voted for the ratification following hours of heated discussion. Forty-seven were against and there were two abstentions.

TALLINN, July 24, 2008 (AFP) - An Estonian architectural group Thursday said it would use a showcase architectural exhibition to spotlight a controversial pipeline that a Russian-German consortium plans to build under the Baltic Sea.

MOSCOW, July 21, 2008 (AFP) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered oil supplies to the Czech Republic to be restored after a cut that came after the signing of a US-Czech defence deal, news agencies reported.

BUDAPEST, July 10, 2008 (AFP) - Hungary's government said Thursday it planned to organise a summit this year to give new momentum to the slow-moving Nabucco pipeline project, aimed at bringing gas to Europe while bypassing Russia.

MADRID, July 3, 2008 (AFP) - India expects to finalise a deal 'by next month' on a pipeline that will transport gas from Iran, Indian Oil Minister Murli Deora told AFP on Thursday.

'We discussed this here again yesterday,' Deora said in an interview on the sidelines of the World Petroleum Congress in Madrid when asked about the project. 'There should be an end to dialogue now.