VOL. XLV

No 2

14-January-2002

CASPIAN

Georgia Ratifies Shah DenizPipeline Agreement With Azerbaijan

The Georgian parliament on 24December ratified an Intergovernmental Agreement signed in October withAzerbaijan covering the transit, transportation and sale of natural gasproduced from the offshore Caspian Shah Deniz gasfield (MEES, 8 October 2001).The agreement covers the proposed Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline, which will runparallel to the proposed Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan crude pipeline as far as...