Iran has brought a fire caused by an oil pipeline spill under control, local media reported . An oil pipeline ruptured on Sunday because of a landslide in southwestern Iran, Reuters quoted Iranian officials as telling local news outlets. The Maroun pipeline carries crude oil to the refinery in Isfahan, which is Iran’s second-largest oil refinery and has the capacity to process 375,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude. “Most of the fire … has been contained and operations teams are repairing the damaged section of the pipeline,” Qasem Arab Yarmohammadi, who leads the state company in charge of oil pipelines, told the oil ministry’s news agency Shana. “The fire has been controlled and the oil spillage prevented from spreading,” Khosro Kiani, who is in charge of the area’s crisis management unit, told Iranian news agency IRNA, as carried by Agence France Presse . This is not the first […]