VOL. XLIV

No. 27

2-July-2001

CASPIAN

Eni Expresses Interest In Joining BTC Pipeline Sponsor Group

Italys Eni, operator of Kazakstans giant offshore Kashagan oilfield, has announced its interest in joining the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) crude pipeline sponsor group. Eni CEO Vittorio Mincato told an international energy conference in Istanbul on 20 June that preliminary assessments of Kazakstans offshore Kashagan oilfield had shown that the oil potential emerging from the north Caspian will require...