VOL. XLIV

No. 25

18-June-2001

CASPIAN

US TDA Provides Kazakstan With Grant To Study Oil Shipments To BTC

The US Trade and Development Agency (TDA) is to provide Kazakstans state-owned oil and gas transport company TransportNeftiGaz (TNG) with a grant of $346,000 to study a proposed project to carry crude by barge across the Caspian Sea to Azerbaijan for export via the proposed Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) crude pipeline. The study will cover the technical, economic and ecological aspects of...