REVIEW BTC CONSTRUCTION TO BE HELD IN JUNE
Commenting on delays in the BTC Turkish section construction A. Sharifov has stressed that in any even small project, for instance, when a house is constructed, delays occur, tens of problems appear - when ditches are dug, communications are laid etc. “The BTC is a very large scale project and naturally the pipeline construction costing around $3 billion cannot do without any problems at all. There are problems, but they are resolved as soon as possible, both on the terriroty of Georgia and on the territory of Turkey,” - A. Sharifov believes.
The length of BTC pipeline is 1,762 km, of which - 443 km are in Azerbaijan, in Georgia - 248 km, in Turkey - 1070 km. The pipeline capacity is 50 million tons of oil per annum. The construction works will be completed in the beginning of 2005.
A Greek Consolidated Contractors International Company is a contractor for the construction of the Azeri part of BTC pipeline, a contractor for Georgian part is Spie Capag/Petrofag, which is also a contractor for works on the construction of pumping stations on the territory of both countries. the Turkish company BOTAS is the contractor for the Turkish part of BTC pipeline.
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