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After an EU-brokered truce between Russian and Georgian troops, BP have reported that the pumping of gas through a pipeline that runs through Georgia has resumed, but a key oil pipeline that runs through the country remains shut as security risks to the surrounding area are assessed.
Transporting oil through Georgia had intended to make the West less dependent on Russian supplies, but the outbreak of violence between Russia and Georgia over the territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia showed the precarious nature of the region as a transit route for energy, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its monthly report.
BP said the South Caucasus pipeline, which runs from the Caspian Sea, through Georgia, and into Turkey, had resumed pumping gas on Thursday 14 August. It had been shut two days earlier following the escalating conflict. The Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP), which runs from Baku to the Georgian port of Supsa was also closed and remains out of action.
Another Georgian pipeline, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline, has had its flow of oil halted since early August following an explosion on the eastern Turkish section of the line. According to the IEA the scheduled reopening in September could also be delayed by the conflict in the country.
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