BP Says It Is Unaware Of Bombing Near Georgia Oil Pipeline LONDON (AFP)--U.K. oil giant BP PLC (BP) said Saturday it was unaware of Russian bombing near a major international oil pipeline in Georgia that it operates. A BP spokesman told AFP: "We've seen reports attributed to a Georgian minister saying that the Russians have bombed the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. "We are not aware of that and I think we probably would be if it were true."
LONDON (AFP)--U.K. oil giant BP PLC (BP) said Saturday it was unaware of Russian bombing near a major international oil pipeline in Georgia that it operates.
A BP spokesman told AFP: "We've seen reports attributed to a Georgian minister saying that the Russians have bombed the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline.
"We are not aware of that and I think we probably would be if it were true."
Russian forces only now been able to unblock Tskhinval and from the reports that are starting to come the city is completely leveled by the artillery and 3 days of Georgian occupation. Civilian casualties are more than 2000, according to the coming reports.
Mikhail Romanoff is one of the 20+ Russian journalists who managed to hide in the basements of several buildings over the course of the Tskhinval siege and fighting is saying they are safe, mostly in one piece and left for North Ossetia. He says not to believe "neither Western (=Georgian) nor Russian TV" and there are more casualties than reported and that it is "worse than Beslan or Chechnya".
