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Aug 12, 2008 10:45 am US/Eastern

BP Shuts Down Pipeline Through Georgia

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Oil company BP PLC says it has shut down a pipeline that runs through Georgia as a precautionary measure, but says that it is unaware of any Russian bombing of pipelines in the region.

The London-based oil company says it closed the 90,000-barrel-a-day oil pipeline running from Baku on the Caspian Sea to Supsa on Georgia's Black Sea coast earlier Tuesday.

BP spokesman Robert Wine says that the Baku-Supsa line was closed because it runs through the center of Georgia where there is greater risk of conflict.