Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 22

31-May-2004

CASPIAN

Azerbaijan Will Not Use Odessa-Brody Pipeline, But Will Set Up Corridor For Other Shippers

Azerbaijan has turned down suggestions made by Ukraine that it ship crude through the still idle Odessa-Brody crude pipeline, saying that its crude will be exported via the 1,760km Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) crude pipeline once it becomes operational in 2005. The president of Azerbaijans state-owned oil company Socar, Natik Aliyev, said on 13...