VOL. XLIII

No. 22

29-May-2000

CASPIAN

Socar Looks To Form Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline Company

The State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (Socar) will hold a meeting in Baku on 29 May to discuss the formation of the proposed Main Export Pipeline Company (MEPCO), essentially the firm that will be established for the purpose of building and operating the proposed Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan crude oil pipeline. All major oil companies active in the Caspian have been invited, as have government officials from...