VOL. XLIII

No. 48

27-November-2000

CASPIAN

Azerbaijan Halts Oil Flow To Novorossysk When Russian Gas Fails To Arrive

Azerbaijan and Russia are evidently running into problems in fulfilling recent agreements regarding oil and gas, with the former halting shipments of crude oil to the Russian port of Novorossysk after promised supplies of Russian gas failed to materialize. The State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (Socar) announced in September that it would resume shipments of crude through...