Firemen struggle to extinguish the blaze at the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline near the eastern Turkish city of Erzincan on Aug. 7, 2008. The BTC pipeline was burning from an explosion on Aug. 6, and was not reopened until Aug. 25, 2008.
The pipeline was outfitted with sensors and cameras to monitor every step of its 1,099 miles from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean. The blast that blew it out….