VOL. XLVI

No 12

24-March-2003

CASPIAN

Azerbaijan And Kazakstan Working On BTC Crude Transport Agreement

The president of Azerbaijans state-owned oil company Socar, Natiq Aliyev, said on 11 March that Azerbaijan and Kazakstan had given themselves six months to draw up an intergovernmental agreement that would allow the latter to export crude to Azerbaijan for further transport through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) crude pipeline. A considerable amount of preparation work for the 1,760km pipeline...