VOL. XLIII

No. 25

19-June-2000

CASPIAN

TCGP Consortium Takes Another Step Back, But Shell Holds Steady

Despite news that PSG International, a joint venture between GE Capital Structured Finance Group and Bechtel and a partner in the proposed TransCaspian Gas Pipeline (TCGP), has started to reassign and dismiss staff, the other partner in the consortium, Shell, says thatthe project to build a 1,700km natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Turkey is still on the table.

A spokesman for GE Capital...