OCT. 4 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – An explosion disabled the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline which pumps gas from the Shah Deniz fields in the Azerbaijani section of the Caspian Sea to Turkey, media reported. This is the second explosion in the Turkish part of the BTC pipeline, a route critical for European gas supplies, this year.
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(News report from Issue No. 107, published on Oct. 5 2012)
FEB. 6 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – A fire broke out at one of Kazakhstan’s three oil refineries. Nobody was hurt in the fire at the refinery in Shymkent, near the Uzbek border, and an official said production was not affected. A broken oil pipe, fractured by the cold weather, was blamed for the fire.
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(News report from Issue No. 76, published on Feb. 9 2012)
SEPT. 22 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — Two blasts ruptured a pipeline carrying gas through Kazakhstan to Russia, the Kazakh emergencies ministry said. Nobody was injured in the blasts although gas exports along the route were suspended. It is unclear what caused the blasts and how gas exports to Russia from Central Asia will be affected.
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(News report from Issue No. 8, published on Sept. 23 2010)
SEPT. 14 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — Fire fighters in Kazakhstan extinguished forest fires which had threatened to spread to Russia. The fires in northern Kazakhstan had been burning for a week.
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(News report from Issue No. 7, published on Sept. 16 2010)
SEPT. 9 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — Dry and windy weather fanned forest fires in the Pavlodar region of northern Kazakhstan. The fires killed at least 6 people and spread to Siberia in Russia. Rain is forecast. Russia has fought a series of forest fires this summer which have severely damaged its grain harvest.
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(News report from Issue No. 6, published on Sept. 9 2010)