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BP says it has resumed pumping gas through a pipeline that runs through Georgia but a key oil pipeline remains closed.

Oil prices spiked on Tuesday after BP shut down an oil pipeline in Georgia, but then flattened out as investors continued to worry about weakening global demand.

Energy giant BP says it has shut an oil pipeline that runs through Georgia as precautionary measure.

The Forties oil pipeline which provides a third of the UK's daily oil output is to close as a result of the Grangemouth dispute.

Oil prices cross $116 a barrel for the first time after a militant group in Nigeria said it had attacked an oil pipeline.

A landslide cuts off Ecuador's main export oil pipeline but the state oil firm says it will try to use other routes.

Reuters - Three soldiers and eight militants were killed in a gun battle at an oil pipeline hub operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's southern state of Bayelsa, the navy said on Sunday.