VOL. XLIII

No. 14

3-April-2000

CASPIAN

Transneft Says Chechen Bypass Complete

Sergei Grigoryev, the vice-president of Transneft, Russias state-owned pipeline company, announced on 27 March that the Chechen bypass section of the Baku-Novorossysk crude pipeline had been completed and that the pipeline would be filled with crude in mid-April. He added that by that time the construction of a 17km link to the Caspian port of Makhachkala would also be finished. The cost of the Chechen bypass and the...