BP back pumping in region

ENERGY giant BP said yesterday that it had resumed pumping gas into the South Caucasus pipeline in Georgia and that the Baku-Supsa oil link remained shut.

“We are pumping gas again into the South Caucasus pipeline,” a company spokesman said.

On Tuesday, BP had stopped pumping into the South Caucasus pipeline, which snakes from Baku in Azerbaijan into Georgia and to the Turkish border, as a precautionary measure amid fighting between Russian and Georgian troops.