A huge explosion hit a key oil pipeline in the city of Kahramanmaras in southeastern Turkey late on Tuesday evening, officials said, sending oil prices to a seven-year-high. Turkey’s state pipeline operator Botas said in a statement that it had cut oil flow at the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline following the explosion and that firefighters and emergency personnel has been working to put out the blaze. The explosion occurred near the 511th kilometer (318th mile) of the pipeline in Kahramanmaraş province’s Pazarcık district at around 19.30 local time. It is not yet known what caused the eruption. Botas said the company’s emergency teams, Kahramanmaraş municipality officials, Gaziantep municipality officials, and firefighters were working together to get the situation under control and that the fire had been put out. “The oil pipeline will be back in operation as soon as possible after the necessary measures have been taken,” the company said. Kahramanmaraş Mayor Hayrettin Güngör told Ihlas News Agency on …