VOL. XXXVIII

NO. 18

30-JANUARY-1995

Oil Transport

Trans-Balkan Crude Oil Pipeline Would Boost Russian Export Flexibility

Plans by Russia, Bulgaria and Greece to build a 300 kms. long crude oilpipeline from the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas to Greece's commercial portof Alexandroupolis in the northern Aegean would bring Russian crude oil closerto western markets and provide Moscow with greater flexibility in serving itscrude oil clients, an industry source with the project tells MEES. "The...