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Over the last few weeks, Turkish and Caspian authorities have several times celebrated the successful implementation of their oil and gas pipelines, alongside announcing their willingness to cooperate in building the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) Railway, though they are still need the consent of two excluded...
Energy security in Turkey has been covered before by Natural Gas Europe: as recent events have shown, it remains a critical issue at the intersection of energy, politics, and security. Unless Turkey can get the problem under control it risks becoming a serious liability, coming as it does during a perfect...
A decade or so ago, the question of how to get the bulk of Azerbaijan’s oil and gas to Western markets led to the historic decision to build the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) and the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum (BTE) export pipelines. While the BTC oil pipeline is already one of the world’s biggest...
Gas transit levels have returned to normal through Turkish pipeline, the South Caucasus pipeline, reported to have suffered an explosion last week. The pipeline, which was shut down from Thursday, 4th of October until Tuesday the 9th of October, was reported to have been affected by terrorist...
BP has agreed to increase the capacity of the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum (BTE) gas pipeline, also known as the South Caucasus pipeline, to up to 60 billion cubic metres a year. The agreement was made with the Azeri government and was announced by Deputy Energy Minister Natig Abbasov today at a conference...
After years of political bickering and commercial uncertainty, Europe’s Southern Gas Corridor project is finally gaining traction. If all goes well, Caspian gas can start flowing to Europe no later than 2018, easing the overdependence on Russian energy imports. Final decisions on Azerbaijan's...
At the end of May, the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline carrying gas from Azerbaijan to Turkey blew up in the Turkish section. Full supplies were suspended until 11 June, whilst repair work was carried out on the line. The extent of the damage and the reluctance of Turkish officials to confirm the cause...
