LONDON (Dow Jones)--A village close to the Baku-Supsa oil pipeline has been bombed but the pipeline itself was not damaged, a spokesperson for the operation's largest shareholder BP PLC (BP) said Tuesday.
"As for the bombing, the village of Akhali Samgori...is located close to the Baku-Supsa pipeline. However no damage to our facilities has been incurred at all," a BP spokesperson in Georgia said in an e-mail.
The 150,000-barrel-a-day Baku-Supsa pipeline is operated by the Azerbaijan International Operating Co., whose largest shareholder is BP.
A Reuters report Tuesday quoted a Georgian Interior Security official as saying Russia had bombed the pipeline, which transports Azerbaijani oil to the Georgian Black Sea port of Supsa. Russia denies the attack.
The assertion comes after the secretary of Georgia's National Security Council, Alexander Lomaia, told AFP the Russian air force had attacked the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline south of the city of Rustavi. BP said it was unaware of the attack and Russia denied it had attacked the pipeline.