VOL. XLI

No. 51

21-December-1998

FSU

AIOC Begins To Fill Refurbished Baku-Supsa Pipeline

The Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC) announced on 11December that it had begun to fill the Baku-Supsa crude pipeline with oil from theoffshore Chirag field. The approximately 800-km. pipeline runs from AIOCs onshoreSangachaly terminal near Baku to the Georgian Black Sea port of Supsa. AIOC Vice PresidentJohn Hollis said oil should reach the Georgian border by the end of December and that the...