VOL. XLVI

No 24

16-June-2003

TURKEY

BTC Company Announces First Welding On Turkish Section Of Crude Pipeline

The owner and operator of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) crude pipeline, BTC Company, announced on 5 June that first welding had taken place on the 1,076km Turkish section of the pipeline. The announcement follows problems that the company faced earlier this year over land appropriation and taxes, prompting a visit to Ankara by David Woodward, the president of BP Azerbaijan, which is the...