Where exactly is Baku-Ceyhan?

[Michael Eisenstadt]

this would run from Baku in Azerbajdan to Ceyhan
in Turkey which is on the Mediterranean.

this pipeline has been under consideration
for quite some time. Iran and Russia want
it to run through their territory which
would make it shorter but there are 
political objections to Iran and/or
Russia having control over it.

Mike Eisenstadt

Connie Clark wrote:
> 
> --I picked up this small item in the local section of
> the paper today:
> 
> Houston's International Scene
> 
> By MAE GHALWASH
> Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle
> 
> Optimism over Baku-Ceyhan pipeline
> 
> A State Department official has dismissed skepticism
> over the construction of the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, a
> $3.5 billion project that would transport Caspian oil
> to European markets, saying that renewed senior-level
> U.S. interest in the region since Sept. 11 should help
> spur development.
> 
> Ambassador Steven Mann, who is the State Department's
> senior adviser for Caspian Basin Energy diplomacy,
> also said costly engineering studies by private
> companies are a sign that there is still interest in
> the pipeline's construction.
> 
> Mann spoke Thursday at a Houston conference on Central
> Asia and the Caspian hosted by the Eurasia Group.
> 
> "For years, people have been speculating that
> (Baku-Ceyhan) is not financially sustainable. Well,
> now we have gone so far down the road on this, and BP
> and its partners have put up $150 million for
> engineering studies, that it is clear within the
> industry that this is a pipeline that is going to
> happen," Mann said.
> 
> The BP Group announced in June that it had launched an
> engineering study of the pipeline and said it expected
> it to be built and operating by 2004.
> 
> Washington has long pushed the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline,
> and it is the center of U.S. Caspian energy policy.
> But the United States faces competition for influence
> in the region, namely from Russia and Iran. Both
> nations are vying for their own regional pipelines.
> 
> Mann also encouraged the Houston business community to
> explore investment opportunities in Eastern European
> states as they continue to modernize.
> 
> However, Mann warned, U.S. companies should proceed
> cautiously when "investing in a part of the world
> where there is no deep tradition of rule of law."
> 
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