VOL. XLV

No 50

16-December-2002

CASPIAN

Azerbaijan And Kazakstan Hold Talks On BTC Pipeline Shipments

Representatives of Azerbaijans and Kazakstans state-owned oil companies, Socar and KazMunaiGaz respectively, met at the US embassy in London on 6 December for preliminary discussions on the possibility of Kazakstan eventually shipping as much as 400,000 b/d of crude through the proposed 1mn b/d Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) crude oil pipeline. The meeting followed initial discussions between the oil...