VOL. XXXIII

NO. 5

6-NOVEMBER-1989

Iran

Turkish Oil Pipeline Project Dropped

Iran has decided to shelve the project to build a 1,860 km., 1mn b/d oilpipeline to link its Khuzestan oil fields to the Mediterranean via Turkey,according to Oil Minister Gholamreza Aghazadeh. Mr. Aghazadeh told a pressconference in Tehran on 25 October that the project - on which the twogovernments signed a protocol in early 1988 (MEES, 7 March 1988) - was cancelledbecause it was uneconomic and because of the high...