VOL. XLVI

No 37

15-September-2003

CASPIAN

Kazakhstan To Join BTC In October

After years of speculation over the pluses and minuses of Kazakhstan joining the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) crude pipeline and the continual urging by Washington for Astana to do so, representatives of the Kazakh and Azerbaijani state oil companies have announced their tentative plans to initial an intergovernmental agreement to that effect in Istanbul on 25 October. The arrangement is a significant boost for the...