VOL. XLIV

No. 03

15-January-2001

TURKEY

Botas Invites Six Firms To Bid On BTC Pipeline Engineering Study

Turkeys Petroleum Pipeline Corp (Botas) has invited six international firms to bid on a tender for a detailed engineering study of the Turkish sector of the proposed Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) crude pipeline. The companies are Kvaerner of Norway, Halliburton, Gulf Interstate and Universal Ensco of the US, Penspen of the UK and ILF of Germany. Botas signed an agreement worth $26mn with PLE of...