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	Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The construction of the BTC pipeline was one of the biggest engineering projects of the decade, and certainly one of the biggest to have occurred anywhere in western Asia since the fall of the Soviet Union.
		The pipeline was commissioned by a consortium of energy companies led by BP (formerly British Petroleum), which has a 30.1% stake and is the operator of the pipeline.
		The pipeline was officially opened on May 25, 2005 in the presence of President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia, and President Ahmet Necdet Sezer of Turkey, as well as United States Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan_pipeline (2720 words)

	The British Chamber of Commerce of Turkey
		Ceyhan is the end point of a pipeline running from neighboring Iraq and Turkey built a new terminal and storage tanks to ship Azeri oil.
		At Ceyhan, the new oil terminal is expected to begin pumping 1 million barrels of crude per day when fully operational.
		Construction of the pipeline fell a year behind schedule and costs rose by 30 percent to around $3.9 billion because of the delays.
	bcct.org.tr /en/content.asp?CID={0211381A-D6DC-432D-BB5A-DD6CC3C098E1} (528 words)

	Hydrocarbons Technology - Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline
		The pipeline was officially inaugurated at the Sangachal terminal, near Baku, by President Ilham Aliyev of the Azerbaijan Republic, President Mikhail Saakashvilli of Georgia and President Ahmet Sezer of Turkey, joined by President Nursaltan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan on 25 May 2005.
		The pipeline is protected against corrosion for its entire length and since security is such a big issue it will be subject to constant safety surveillance, patrols and closed circuit TV observation (in case of terrorist incursion).
		The pipeline crosses the land of 20,000 individuals and companies who have been compensated with a share of over $133 million for the acquisition of rights to the small portion of their land where the pipeline runs.
	www.hydrocarbons-technology.com /projects/bp (1461 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted source for news on Central Asia
		BAKU, Azerbaijan - At an Eurasian economic summit in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Gian Maria Gros-Pietro, chairman of Italy's ENI, said that the Caspian held 7.8 billion barrels of oil.
		The Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipeline, BTC, is being planned and built by the BTC Pipeline Company (BTC Co), a huge consortium led and operated by British oil giant British Petroleum, BP.
		Some corporate assurances are frankly Kafkaesque: among other justifications, BP in Baku says that even in the case of an oil leakage in the Borjomi area, there will be no damage to the source of the famous local mineral water because the pipeline will be 15 kilometers away.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/EL25Ag02.html (3252 words)

	Trouble in the Pipeline
		The pipeline, the construction of which is due to begin in December, runs from the Caspian Sea, through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey to the Mediterranean.
		The questionnaire noted that the pipeline is a Turkish government project "of high economic and strategic importance" to the country.
		Though the construction of the pipeline will destroy homes, fields and roads and damage many people's livelihoods, only a minority of those it affects are likely to receive compensation.
	www.commondreams.org /views02/0903-02.htm (1350 words)

	Diplomatic Traffic
		In 1994 a pipeline was proposed that would take oil from Baku to Supsa, a small port near the major Georgian port city of Batumi on the Black Sea.
		The pipeline is designed to carry 1 million barrels a day, but might be expanded to carry 1.5 million.
		The government in Baku is proving a satisfactory partner for the US agenda and relations are bound only to improve, he says.
	www.diplomatictraffic.com /highlights_archives.asp?ID=110 (1716 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Q&A: The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline
		The $3.2bn (?1.74bn) pipeline, the largest private construction project in the world, is part of a $20bn series of energy developments to produce and transport oil and gas from the landlocked Caspian.
		Turkey says the pipeline could be the "Silk Road of the 21st century", and BP describes the Caspian as one of its major new profit centres.
		Another concern cited by the Baku Ceyhan Campaign, a group opposing the pipeline, is the effectiveness of the coating designed to protect the pipe from corrosion.
	www.guardian.co.uk /oil/story/0,11319,1492872,00.html (877 words)

	BakuSun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		According to a BP executive, all contractual parties in ACG’s exploration and development are expected to give their approval to the project’s implementation in the near future.
		Actual construction of the pipeline is expected to start in the first quarter of 2003 and to be completed by mid-2004.
		The first tanker load of Azeri crude oil is planned to set sail from the port of Ceyhan in the first quarter of 2005.
	www.bakusun.az:8104 /cgi-bin/ayten/bakusun/show.cgi?code=2716 (445 words)

	TNI Sustainable Energy and Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		For the U.S., the pipeline is a strategic way to reduce its petroleum dependency on the Persian Gulf by tapping oil reserves in former Soviet states while bypassing Iran and Russia.
		She has raised serious questions about the proposed pipeline route, which cuts through a region with a history of landslides, seismic activity and separatist rebellions, contributing to the risk of an oil spill or sabotage.
		While construction has begun on the pipeline scheduled for completion in 2005, Kochladze continues to wage a legal battle to force BP and the Georgian Ministry of Environment to reexamine the Borjomi route in favor of a less environmentally destructive alternative.
	www.tni.org /energy-docs/kochladze.htm (1501 words)

	EurasiaNet Business & Economics - International Lenders Assume Burden of Proof on Pipeline Promise
		The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline project gained a boost on November 11 when the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development approved $250 million in financing for pipeline development.
		The most vocal of these groups challenged the premise that the pipeline would, on balance, benefit people in the countries it passes.
		In his view, a "strategic" impact statement would have addressed the pipeline’s impact on oil exploration and export in Kazakhstan.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/business/articles/eav111103.shtml (1060 words)

	The Refugee Project
		Puzzled by this discrepancy, the Baku- Ceyhan Campaign - an international coalition of environmental and human rights groups - organised a seminar in October 2002 at the House of Lords to give BP the opportunity to justify its demands publicly.
		And it is not only politics that are volatile here; the pipeline lies literally on top of the North Anatolian faultline, responsible for no less than ten major earthquakes in the last 60 years, coincidentally the likely duration of the BTC pipeline.
		The Baku-Ceyhan pipeline symbolises the real democratic deficit of the twenty-first century: the unaccountable and unrestrained use by ECAs and funders of billions of pounds of the Northern public's taxes to finance massive infrastructure projects in the South.
	www.therefugeeproject.org /bpanders.htm (1565 words)

	IFC BTC Oil Pipeline Project - BTC Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The BTC pipeline is a dedicated crude oil pipeline system, which will extend from the ACG field through Azerbaijan and Georgia to a terminal at Ceyhan on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey.
		The pipeline can transport up to 1 million barrels per day, and at 1760 kilometers is one of the longest of its kind in the world.
		The BTC pipeline will complement oil transport from two existing pipelines—the Northern Route pipeline to Novorossiyk, Russia, and the Western Route pipeline which ends in Supsa, Georgia—whose transportation capacity is limited.
	ifcln1.ifc.org /ifcext/btc.nsf (280 words)

	foei campaigns: mining (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In 2005, the 1,770-km long pipeline is due to transport up to 50 million tonnes of crude oil per year.
		Proponents argue that the pipeline will provide significant profits to the countries involved, transform the business environment, and deliver jobs and investment programmes to local communities – all while protecting the environment.
		march 2003: baku-ceyhan pipeline in turkey poorly planned and april 2003: the claims in 5 countries against bp and pipeline partners.
	www.foei.org /publications/link/mining/38case.html (1175 words)

	Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
		For several reasons the Baku-Supsa pipeline did not suffice, and plans were being made for creating additional pipelines, one for oil, from Baku to the Turkish Mediterranean coast at Ceyhan.
		There is also a gas pipeline planned in the same corridor as the BTC to make the whole project more profitable, and to supply the Turkish market with the gas.
		Nobody but BP can control a pipeline being build with only BP's money, but if they need resources from public funds, they have to be forced to ignore the lack of regulation in the host country, and made to confirm to the highest standards also applied in more developed countries.
	www.student.unimaas.nl /D.Meijers/uni/btc.html (2334 words)

	Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline is the Biggest Development In the Caspian Sea Since the Collapse of USSR, and Islamic Republic of ...
		Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline is the Biggest Development In the Caspian Sea Since the Collapse of USSR, and Islamic Republic of Iran is the biggest loser in the case
		The pipelines have to be built and when they are in place, no body is going to change them.
		During the negotiations for Istanbul Declaration, the Kazakh president had presented a separate statement in support of Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, which was then attached to the Istanbul Declaration.
	www.payvand.com /news/05/may/1222.html (1061 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted source for news on Central Asia
		The pipeline, known as the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan project (BTC), has the potential to deliver a million barrels of crude a day to the Ceyhan terminal over the next 20 years, then to be shipped to global users via supertanker.
		The consortium building the pipeline, led by the British oil giant BP and including Italy’s Eni, Statoil of Norway, the US-based Unocal and France’s Total, is seeking around 70 percent of the total cost in loans.
		Georgia should get about $500 million in transit fees from the pipeline, while revenue to Turkey will be about $1.5 billion from transit fees and for the use of the terminal at Ceyhan as well as transit fees and upstream investments.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/EK06Ag01.html (1714 words)

	Politics \| Britain takes up case of Turkish pipeline activist
		British campaigners opposed to the project claim that Ferhat Kaya, 29, was detained in the town of Ardahan, near the border with Georgia, because he has been chasing compensation on behalf of villagers whose land is affected by the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline.
		The 1,087-mile route from Azerbaijan's gushing wells to Turkey's Mediterranean coast is intended to reduce the west's reliance on oil from the Gulf.
		Turkey's application to join the EU is due to be considered in December and its human rights record has been one of the main areas of contention.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4973572-110481,00.html (523 words)

	Remarks at Baku State University
		The weeks and months before an election are as important as the election itself in determining whether it is free and fair.
		We are listening carefully to the concerns of candidates and citizen activists all over Azerbaijan regarding inaccurate voting lists, breakdown in printing and distribution of voter ID cards, and insufficient efforts to combat election fraud.
		The Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipeline is a great achievement, and I congratulate President Aliyev and his team for making it a reality.
	www.state.gov /p/eur/rls/rm/55354.htm (1644 words)

	Amec out of Baku!
		AMEC is being visited today because of their involvement in the environmentally and socially devastating BP-led Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipeline which is set to bring one million barrels of oil a day to Europe via Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey.
		The pipeline itself and the transport to markets would lead to greater risks of oil spills, as the recent Prestige oil spill shows..
		BP’s pipeline in Colombia has exacerbated conflict in the region, with BP funding paramilitaries to silence its critics, including its own workers, to keep the oil flowing.
	www.earthfirst.org.uk /manchester/baku/amecflier.htm (581 words)

	Baku Ceyhan Campaign
		As state dignitaries, oil men and bankers gather in Turkey for the much delayed launch of BP’s Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, international campaigners are charging BP with failing affected communities and the local environment.
		BP is obscuring delays to its flagship BTC pipeline by filling the first tanker to leave Ceyhan with oil previously pumped through a different pipeline.
		Summary of evidence presented to Committee by the Baku Ceyhan Campaign
	www.bakuceyhan.org.uk (321 words)

	First ship loads oil from new Caspian pipeline
		BP, operator of the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, has announced that the first cargo of oil transported through the pipeline from Azerbaijan has been exported from the Ceyhan marine terminal on the Turkish Mediterranean coast.
		The loading followed the completion of the testing, commissioning and filling of the BTC pipeline along its entire 1,768 kilometre route across Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, from the Sangachal terminal on the Caspian coast near Baku to the Ceyhan terminal.
		The pipeline currently serves only the ACG fields but is expected, longer term, to attract volumes from other parts of the region.
	www.the-eic.com /News/Archive/2006/Jun/Article2188.htm (199 words)

	Kurdish Human Rights Project
		The pipeline, if built, would carry up to a million barrels of oil a day from the Caspian Sea through Georgia to Ceyhan on the Turkish Mediterranean coast.
		A number of planned visits to villages affected by the pipeline had to be abandoned by the delegation, for fear of exposing residents to potential human rights abuses by state security agents.
		The Gendarmerie was heavily implicated in the worst human rights abuses inflicted on Kurdish civilians in Turkey in recent decades; and has been repeatedly criticised by the European Court of Human Rights in KHRP cases.
	www.khrp.org /publish/p2003/03C.htm (334 words)

	Turks.US Daily News: Turkish President Sezer inaugurates BTC pipeline
		Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer was in Azerbaijan Wednesday for the opening of the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipeline (BTC) held in the Sangachal Terminal near to the capital of Baku.
		Speaking from the opening ceremony Sezer said, " The pipeline is important for regional stability and economic development." Sezer also said that the pipeline would assure secure energy distribution and would reduce the burden on the Turkish Straits.
		On the subject of Shah Deniz Natural Gas Pipeline Project from Baku to Erzurum via Tbilis, the Turkish president expressed wishes that the pipeline would be activated at the end of 2006.
	www.turks.us /article.php?story=20050526070255556&mode=print (304 words)

	BP blame Turkish builders for delay on BTC
		BP's Azerbaijan representative, David Woodward blamed builders of the Ankara-managed segment of the 1,7770 km pipeline for being late on their end.
		The pipeline is set to carry caspian oil to western markets without having to go through Russia.
		Major shareholders in the BTC pipeline include BP with 30.1 percent, the Azerbaijani state (25%), Unocal (8.9%) and Statoil (8.7%).
	www.turkeydailynews.com /?c=47&a=1859 (161 words)

	BTC pipeline finally starts on 13 July (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The full official launch of the pipeline, running over a year behind the initial schedule, will take place in Ceyhan on 13 July in the presence of Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Turkish and Georgian leaders.
		Until then, Azerbaijani oil officials have said the BP-led pipeline group would fill storages in Ceyhan not from the pipeline flows, but by bringing crude in tankers from the Black Sea port of Supsa, also operated by the pipeline group.
		Traders and shippers are keen to know when the pipeline will be launched in earnest because its shipments of light and sweet Azerbaijani crude are predicted to massively change the landscape of the Mediterranean market which is currently dominated by the heavier Russian Urals blend.
	www.tankerworld.com /articles/170/1/BTC-pipeline-finally-starts-on-13-July (354 words)

	Oil, Gas, Mining & Chemicals - Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan Pipeline
		The Baku Tblisi Ceyhan, or BTC, pipeline will be a pipeline system to transport up to one million barrels of oil per day (bpd) of crude oil primarily from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli, or ACG, fields.
		The BTC pipeline became a necessity due to current transportation capacity constraints that would serve to transport to market ACG crude resources, which at peak may approach 1 million bpd.
		The BTC pipeline will be constructed and operated in accordance with stringent international environmental and social standards, will be buried along its entire length and will avoid the need to resettle any home or household as it passes through Azerbaijan (442 km), Georgia (248 km) and Turkey (1,070 km).
	web.worldbank.org /WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTOGMC/0,,contentMDK:20216991~menuPK:463163~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:336930,00.html (384 words)

	Sustainable Energy & Economy Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The BTC pipeline project begins near Baku, Azerbaijan, and would carry Caspian oil via Tblisi, Georgia to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, Turkey.
		According to the Baku Ceyhan Campaign, Bechtel is providing procument and construction management for the pipeline, and engineering services on the Azerbaijan and Georgia sections.
		The 1,760 km pipeline, which starts at the Sangachal Terminal near Baku in Azerbaijan, passes through Georgia and ends at a new marine terminal at Ceyhan on the Mediterranean coast in Turkey, is due to become operational in early 2005.
	www.seen.org /db/Dispatch?action-ProjectWidget:59-detail=1 (703 words)

	Securing a Prosperous Future: Baku, Azerbaijan, October 14 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In May of this year, the Baku-Tblisi-Çeyhan (BTC) Pipeline was officially opened, linking the petrochemical resources of the Caspian Sea to the rest of the world.
		As such, the Azerbaijan Working Group will utilise this unprecedented gathering at the Baku Conference to engage with local and international civil society, to highlight strategies for improvement, to establish global support for the coming months, and to maximize the benefits of globalization for all Azeris.
		It is the hope of the Azerbaijan Working Group that the forging of new relationships, the breadth of participation and discourse, and the exploration of new political territory will all contribute to a stronger foundation for Azerbaijan as this important nation integrates itself into the world economy.
	www.globalfairness.org /azerbaijan/securing.html (1078 words)

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