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BP on alert as Russian jets attack pipeline in Georgia
Telegraph ^ | 11/08/2008 | Jonathan Sibun

Posted on 08/10/2008 4:50:04 PM PDT by Colorado Doug

BP is facing a second front in the former Soviet Union after Russian jets were reported to have launched a bombing raid on its main pipeline in Georgia, raising fears that Moscow was moving to increase its stranglehold on Europe's energy supplies.

The oil giant is the biggest of more than 100 British companies operating in Georgia that have unwittingly become embroiled in the war between Russia and its neighbour.

The FTSE company is already fighting a protracted battle with four Russia oligarchs for control of TNK-BP. Robert Dudley, the chief executive of the joint venture, was last month forced to go into hiding, while the company's chief financial officer, James Owen, stepped down last week.

BP, which employs hundreds in Georgia, owns a 30pc stake in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, the world's second longest. It carries more than 1pc of the global oil supply or 1m barrels a day from Azerbaijan to the Mediterranean and was attacked unsuccessfully by Russian jets on Saturday.

Local reports recorded 51 missile strikes that left craters less than 100 yards on either side of a pressure vent.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: catholic; energy; geopolitics; georgia; immaculateheart; oil; pipeline; praytherosary; russia; war
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1 posted on 08/10/2008 4:50:07 PM PDT by Colorado Doug
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To: Colorado Doug

Not very good aim. 51 shots, 51 misses


2 posted on 08/10/2008 4:51:18 PM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: Colorado Doug

oil’s too cheap, huh?

/s


3 posted on 08/10/2008 4:52:19 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: Jeff Head

Ping!


4 posted on 08/10/2008 4:52:35 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon ("...with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.")
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To: Colorado Doug

No War for Oil!


5 posted on 08/10/2008 4:54:44 PM PDT by KansasGirl ( b/c Obama is just creepy.)
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To: Colorado Doug

Would I be cliche to say “this is insane?”

I think it’s time to go build a little hidey-hole in my basement. These people are beyond mentally unbalanced.


6 posted on 08/10/2008 4:55:08 PM PDT by EggsAckley ( "the difference between Obama and Osama is just a little b.s.")
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To: Colorado Doug

Hits less than 100 yards either side of the pipeline indicate the pipeline was “bracketed”. They could have taken it out but did not. I would suspect this was a negotiation tactic as in showing what they could do. There are probably demands being made that if not met, the ‘bracket’ will be split. Just a guess.


7 posted on 08/10/2008 4:55:52 PM PDT by rgboomers (This space purposely left blank)
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To: Colorado Doug

What does a BP oil pipeline have to do with ethnic Russians in South Ossetia???


8 posted on 08/10/2008 4:56:05 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon ("...with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.")
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To: Colorado Doug

Here’s to Russian Air Force marksmanship!

(Note to self, fill gas tank tomorrow morning..early...)


9 posted on 08/10/2008 4:56:13 PM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Romans 10.10/Eze 11.2)
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To: Colorado Doug

Those are shots accross the bow, interfere and the next ones won’t miss.


10 posted on 08/10/2008 4:56:38 PM PDT by eastforker (Get-R-Done and then Bring-Em- Home)
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To: Colorado Doug
It's another warning that the U.S. needs to be energy independent. Put pressure on your Congress critters to drill for oil now off our shores and ANWR!

Toll free capital switchboard numbers are:

800-965-4701

800-828-0498
11 posted on 08/10/2008 4:57:03 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: ken21

I was going to say, so much for $115 oil per barrel.


13 posted on 08/10/2008 4:57:44 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Momaw Nadon

the british petorleum-operated oil pipeline passes from the east to the west across georgia.

ossetia’s near by.


14 posted on 08/10/2008 4:59:45 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: Man50D

Not to be negative but the idiots left congress a week ago and Nanct off on her book tour. In essense they are giving America the finger and saying screw you, we own you.


15 posted on 08/10/2008 5:00:18 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Momaw Nadon
What does a BP oil pipeline have to do with ethnic Russians in South Ossetia???

Are you being rhetorical or is this a serious question? If I were guessing at an answer, one answer would be that concern for the ethnic Russians in South Ossetia is a ruse and Russia's real goal is to conquer Georgia and control the pipeline.

16 posted on 08/10/2008 5:00:36 PM PDT by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)
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To: Blue Highway

there was an interesting article in the nyt by a helene something-or-other saying

that if the u.s. were to give kosovo back to russia (implicitly to their client serbia),

then iran would be ok.


17 posted on 08/10/2008 5:01:44 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: ken21
We're getting an idea of where the speculators come from who sent the price of oil so high ~ and the Nancy woman thinks she can use American tax law to punish them.

Should I laugh or puke.

18 posted on 08/10/2008 5:02:30 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Man50D

re: It’s another warning that the U.S. needs to be energy independent.

The only thing that will kick the people who can make it happen in the butt and wake them up is the price of gas. $4 almost did the trick.

I don’t how many more of these warnings we can afford to ignore. After all these years we still haven’t moved to increase our use of nuclear power or to tap into our own supplies of energy.

We have simply lost our ability to prepare for the future. We live one day at a time, one gas tank fill up at a time. Politics have reached the point that any situation truly worthy of serious consideration is quickly divided between the two factions and from then on it’s a matter of who can make the most of it.


19 posted on 08/10/2008 5:03:42 PM PDT by jwparkerjr
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To: muawiyah

yep.

as ibd pointed out, nancy disparages the speculators when the price goes up,

but when speculators drive the price goes down, her brain’s turned off.


20 posted on 08/10/2008 5:05:45 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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