CAUCASUS PIPELINE LEAVES RUSSIA IN THE COLD AND TURKEY TO BENEFIT

After 12 years of setbacks and disagreements the taps are ready to turn on a 2.6 billion-dollar giant pipeline which will pump oil from the Caspian Sea to Turkey and on to the world’s energy markets – a process which stands to sap Moscow of some of its influence over the energy resource-rich Caucasus region. Billed as the “energy project of the century” the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline will start operations on Wednesday, its inauguration symbolising an end to the bickering between nations and oil companies that brought so many delays and changes of plan.

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