VOL. XLII

No 48

29-November-1999

FSU

Flooding Closes Baku-Supsa Pipeline, Forcing AIOC To RouteExports Through Russia

Just when it appeared that the Azerbaijan InternationalOperating Company (AIOC) was well settled into exporting its crude through theBlack Sea port of Supsa and was free of the problems dogging theBaku-Novorossysk pipeline, flooding in Georgia has forced the consortium toclose the Baku-Supsa pipeline and turn to Russia. AIOC said on 24 November thatit closed the Baku-Supsa...