Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 37

13-Sep-2010

CASPIAN

Transneft To Restart Samsun-Ceyhan Talks From Scratch

Nikolai Tokarev, CEO of Transneft, which leads Russias participation in the proposed Samsun-Ceyhan oil pipeline project, told RIA Novosti on 3 September that Turkey is suggesting signing an intergovernmental agreement that fixes unacceptable economical limits for us. Certainly, we will not agree with it and will start a new round of negotiations from scratch. This would constitute...