No damage to Turkish oil pipelines: Energy official

There is no damage to the Kerkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, which carries oil from Iraq to Turkey, or the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which carries oil across Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, an energy official told Reuters news agency.

The official said oil flows are continuing on both pipelines following the earthquake, which hit near Gaziantep in southeastern Turkey.

However, operations at the Ceyhan oil terminal in southern Turkey were suspended, the Tribeca shipping agency said, adding that an emergency meeting was being held on the issue, reports Al Jazeera.

The quake, of magnitude 7.8, struck southern Turkey and northwest Syria early on Monday, killing more than 500 people and injuring hundreds as buildings collapsed across the region, triggering searches for survivors in the rubble.