VOL. XLVI

No 24

16-June-2003

CASPIAN

Shah Deniz Supporters Dismiss Russian Suggestion To Use Blue Stream

The US, Azerbaijan, BP and Statoil have dismissed a suggestion made recently by Russian Caspian affairs envoy Viktor Kalyuzhny that Shah Deniz natural gas could be shipped to Turkey through the new, currently idle, Blue Stream pipeline. Speaking at a conference in Istanbul on 27 May and again at a conference in Baku on 4 June, Mr Kalyuzhny suggested that the partners in Azerbaijans Shah Deniz...