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ANKARA, Turkey, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Turkey's state-owned pipeline firm BOTAS is taking the necessary steps to resume oil flow through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, officials said Tuesday.
The separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party claimed responsibility for a fire on a section of the oil pipeline in eastern Turkey in early August, consuming 10,000 barrels of crude.
Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler said BOTAS International Ltd. had made repairs on the section and was conducting an examination of the pumping stations, the Azerbaijan Business Center reported.
Firefighters had extinguished the blaze Aug. 11, and Turkish officials said repairs would be completed by Friday.
"In parallel with the repairs on the damaged segment, the pump stations located on the pipeline are under prophylactic inspection," Guler said.
The Azerbaijan International Operating Co., the Azeri exporter through BTC, said it is awaiting word from BOTAS on the status of the repairs.
Military conflict between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway republic of South Ossetia halted the flow of as much as 1 percent of the world's oil through the BTC pipeline.
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