VOL. XXXVI

NO. 48

30-AUGUST-1993

CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS

Caspian Pipeline System Re-routed To Bypass Grozny

The Caspian Pipeline Consortium Ltd. (CPCL) - a group comprising theSultanate of Oman and the Republics of Khazakhstan and Russia that was set upearly 1992 to construct and operate a pipeline system for the export of crudeoil from the landlocked oilfields of Kazakhstan and the Azerbaijan (MEES, 13July and 13 August 1992) - has now decided to change the pipeline's originalselected route to...