BP says Baku-Ceyhan flow nearly back up to normal

TBILISI (Reuters) - Oil flow through the BP-led Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline is nearly back up to its normal daily average of between 700,000 and 800,000 barrels per day after this month's two-week closure because of an explosion in its Turkish stretch, a BP spokesman in Tbilisi said.

"It is operating -- not as normal, but pretty close to it," spokesman Matt Taylor said. "We're ramping up towards that sort of figure."

Separately, he said it was "very hard to put a timeline" on the planned reopening of the oil pipeline between Baku, Azerbaijan and Supsa on Georgia's Black Sea coast, in the light of this month's conflict between Russia and Georgia.

(Reporting by Mark Trevelyan)