Oil transportation via Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline has been halted Wednesday because of defects and a fire that broke out in one of the blocks in a BTC section on the Turkish territory, Itar-Tass quoted Tamam Byatly, a spokeswoman for BP- Azerbaijan (a BTC operator), as saying. “We have been informed about the incident in one of the 52 blocks of the oil pipeline by BOTAS general contactor for the Turkish part of BTC on Wednesday morning and immediately stopped oil transportation,” the spokeswoman said. No one was hurt in the fire, the spokeswoman said.