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| Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia |
| Kazakh gas pipeline blown up |
| 2008-07-17 |
| Part of a pipeline carrying natural gas from energy-rich Central Asia to Russia has been shut down after being damaged by an explosion, emergency officials in Kazakhstan said Wednesday. A 39-kilometer section of the Central Asia-Center pipeline in western Kazakhstan was closed off following the blast late Tuesday, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. Nobody was hurt in the blast, the ministry said in a statement. There was no word on the cause of the explosion or what effect it would have on supplies. The effect could be small because the pipeline system is extensive. In Moscow, officials at the state-owned Russian gas monopoly OAO Gazprom declined to comment. Moscow reached a deal with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan in December to build a new natural gas pipeline along the Caspian Sea coast to Russia to supplement the existing route. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Now who would want to go and do a thing like that? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-07-17 07:55 |
| #1 ION KOMMERSANT > STATE DUMA MEMBER:US IS THE CAUSE OF RUSSIA's, UKRAINIAN CLASHES + RUSSIA, CHINA DSPLEASE BUSH ANEW [Zimbabwe]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-07-17 03:16 |