Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 18

2-May-2005

Turkey Envisages Ceyhan Becoming Rotterdam On The Med

The completion of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline later this year is being seen by Turkeys energy industry as an important step towards its crude loading facilities at Ceyhan evolving into a major international energy hub. This would comprise not only an important crude loading terminal, but also refineries and petrochemical plants, plus an oil trading market.

Turkey fully supports...