Title: BTC pipeline officially opened
Description: Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
Description: Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
Efeler - July 13, 2006 02:51 PM (GMT)
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Caspian pipeline is declared open  A 1,768-km (1,100-mile) pipeline carrying oil from the Caspian Sea to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan has been formally opened. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline links Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. Oil is then shipped to Western markets. The US-backed project was conceived 10 years ago to diversify the West's oil sources and bypass Russia. Oil began flowing in May. At full capacity the pipeline will carry a million barrels of crude oil a day. A second pipeline carrying Caspian gas along the same route is expected to start working by the end of the year. Strategic project The presidents of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia and ministers from a number of countries are attending the official opening ceremony in Ceyhan. The pipeline has been heavily backed by Washington from the very start. The US is keen to challenge Russia's dominance of energy supply routes and to promote the Caspian as a secure additional source of fuel channelled via America's regional allies, says the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Ceyhan. For Ankara too this is a strategic project as much as an economic one, she adds. Ankara is currently negotiating to host several other international gas and oil pipelines, hoping to become a major transit and terminal country for fuel. |
Technical specs (taken from CNNTurk):
Capacity: 50 million ton/year (Daily: 1 million barrels)
Total length: 1774 km (Azerbaycan: 440 km Georgia: 260 km Turkey: 1074 km)
Total pumping stations: 10 (in Turkey: 4)
Project cost: close to US$4 billion
Clearday-TRForce - July 14, 2006 07:44 AM (GMT)
I very much hope this pipeline will give us another step towards the upnotch welfare
Lord - July 14, 2006 08:39 AM (GMT)
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Anatolian pesants report otherwise my friend...(in a docu on a german Channel N24)
alot of enviromentely problems have occured with this project...and not only...
baris75 - July 14, 2006 09:15 AM (GMT)
German's have a different agenda when it comes to Turkey's under ground riches, energy politics and pipeline projects. I don't know but it seems to me that these guys are like innoýcent looking evils. Another interesting point is that they always attack from the envoirment point of view. That makes them look more innocent. Ze nazty Germanz.