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Каспинфо июнь 2002 |
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Название: Маршруты траснпортировки каспийских энергоресурсов на англ. языке Главные Пункты: * Эксперты Минюста Грузии считают, что повреждение трубопровода Баку-Супса было преднамеренным. В результате инцидента произошел разлив нефти. Сейчас трубопровод работает в нормальном режиме. * ЕБРР готов вложить в сооружение трубопровода Баку-Джейхан $300 млн. (10% от стоимости проекта). Строительство начнется в июле 2002 г. и закончится в 2005 г. * ЛУКойл отказался от участия в проекте Баку-Джейхан, т.к. ГНКАР отказалась продать ЛУКойл'у 10% газового месторождения Шах-Дениз, заявил вице-президент ГНКАР. * Вице-президент Иранской Национальной Нефтяной Компании А.Рахгозар предложил Азербайджану, Турции и Туркменистану осуществлять совместные проекты в области добычи и транспортировки каспийских энергоресурсов. По его словам, использование иранской территории и инфраструктуры приведет к снижению транспортных расходов до $2 за баррель нефти. * и др. сообщения. (05.06.2002) Полный Текст Маршруты траснпортировки каспийских энергоресурсов на англ. языке Маршруты транспортировки каспийских энергоресурсов на англ. языке *** BAKU-SUPSA OIL PIPELINE DAMAGE A group of Justice Ministry experts and the special research center have left for the village of Sviri (Zestaponi region) to study damage to the Baku-Supsa oil pipeline. They revealed that damage was deliberate. An amount of oil leaked from the pipeline, which has now been repaired and is functioning normally. The Georgia Messenger, May 14, 2002 Caucasus Environmental NGO Network (CENN) 44 Electronic Bulletin: *** BP CONFERENCE FOR GEORGIA COMPANIES bp Has organized a conference dedicated to the business potential of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan And Baku-Erzrum projects. The conference showed to Georgian construction and transport organizations and industrial enterprises how they become involved in the practical implementation of these projects. According to the agreement on the construction of the oil pipeline and gas pipeline, 80-85% of the labor force and specialists will be locally employed. The Georgia Messenger, May 7, 2002 Caucasus Environmental NGO Network (CENN) 44 Electronic Bulletin: *** /14:11 04.06.2002/ Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline to get major EBRD funds Baku, June 4, 2002. (CNA). The planned major oil pipeline from Azeri oilfields to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, once dismissed as too costly, got a further boost on Friday when the EBRD said it would fund at least 10 percent of the project. "We want to finance the Baku-Ceyhan project and are ready to fund $300 million before the end of 2002," Thomas Moser, the head of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in the Azeri capital Baku told Reuters. A BP-led consortium plans to start building the $2.9 billion, 1,730 km (1,075 mile) oil pipeline in July and complete it by 2005. The link will carry up to one million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil, mainly from Azerbaijan's giant offshore fields operated by BP, to Turkey's southern coast. Between 20 and 30 percent of the cost will be financed by the BP consortium in cash, the rest borrowed from international financial institutions. The U.S.-backed pipeline project was masterminded by Turkey in the early 1990s to bypass its already busy Bosphorus straits, the only outlet at present for Russian and Caspian oil transported via the Black Sea. The BP-led group earlier this year decided to build the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline along the same channel as a gas pipeline to Turkey from a huge offshore gas field in Azerbaijan, also operated by BP. Moser said Western banks were ready to provide both pipeline projects with up to $2 billion but declined to name other potential lenders. Turkish officials have said the U.S. Eximbank, Japan Eximbank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) were among those interested in providing financing for the project. The EBRD has lent $350 million to the Azeri economy and has invested another $265 million in Caspian Sea oil projects. CNA/www.caspian.ru *** /13:37 04.06.2002/ India and Kazakhstan discuss gas and oil pipeline development Alma-Ata, June 4, 2002. (CNA). India began discussions on the development of Kazakhstan's oil and gas fields and the possibility of laying a pipeline through the vast Central Asian nation during a meeting of the two nations' leaders on Monday. "India is prepared to make a major investment in the oil and gas sector in Kazakhstan, as we did last year in the Sakhalin field of Russia," Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said. Exploration and development of Kazakhstan's oil and gas resources in Kurmangazy in the Caspian Sea area, Alibekmol and Darkhan were discussed during Vajpayee's meeting with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. The meeting was overshadowed by the fear of war between nuclear-armed Pakistan and India, and conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, all of which sent representatives to the summit. "India in a few years is going to become one of the largest suppliers of natural gas and will be looking for a market" and ways to deliver its product, India's deputy foreign minister, Omar Abdullah, told reporters after the leaders met. In the past, India has discussed the idea of a pipeline that would cross Pakistan, with whom it has fought three wars in the 55 years since both became independent from Britain. India has also held talks on the proposed pipeline with Iran, through which it could pass to reach Kazakhstan, Iran's neighbor on the Caspian Sea. Vajpayee and Nazarbayev also talked about India contributing its expertise to help Kazakhstan build a software technology park near the southern business hub in Almaty, and develop small-scale industries, such as in food production, Associated press reports. CNA/www.caspian.ru *** /13:15 31.05.2002/ Azeri officials surprised by Lukoil's refusal to fund Baku-Ceyhan Baku, May 31, 2002. (CNA). Russian oil company LUKoil may have refused to take part in construction of the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline because its bid for Azerbaijan's 10 per cent of the Sah Daniz gas field was rejected, First Vice-President of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijani Republic SOCAR Ilham Aliyev has said. Other companies were willing to take part in this project, including France's TotalFinaElf but SOCAR has not entered into any talks on this issue because Azerbaijan is not going to sell its share, Aliyev said. Aliyev dismissed as rumours the press reports suggesting that LUKoil had declined to participate because of pressure from Viktor Kalyuzhnyy, Russian deputy foreign minister and the special envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Caspian Sea affairs, and Russian Deputy Premier Viktor Khristenko. "We have also heard that Putin receives somewhat partial information on this issue, but we do not know exactly what it is," Aliyev said. Another reason why LUKoil's refusal is surprising is that this could create serious problems for the company itself, when oil from the Azeri and Ciraq oil fields will be transported via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, Aliyev said. LUKoil could transport its oil via the Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline, but then its expenditure is going to be four or five times higher. As for the conditions for LUKoil's participation in developing the Araz-Alov-Sarq oil field, over which Azerbaijan and Iran are in dispute, Aliyev said that LUKoil was willing to take part in this project but there were no talks on its specific share, Sarq reports. CNA/www.caspian.ru *** BAKU-JEYHAN PIPELINE WILL BE MANAGED FROM SANGACHAL TERMINAL Baku /SCEconomic/ 22.05.02/ The control over Azeri oil pumping through the main Baku-Tbilisi-Jeyhan export pipeline will be conducted from terminal in Sangachal, where raw material will be pumped in a pipe, have informed in BP office. Pipeline will be managed from Sangachal throughout all the extent down to Turkish city of Jeyhan. It is expected, that the management center of a pipe will be constructed to the end of 2004 because exactly to this time BP Company is planning to finish construction of a stationary sea-platform "Azeri-1", the oil from which will be sent on a coast (to Sangachal terminal) and pumped in a pipe. The pumping of oil from the pipeline will start in January 2005. The running capacity of future pipe will make 50 million tons of oil per a year. Cost of its construction is estimated to 2.9 billion dollars. online economic newsletter "South Caucasus Economy" *** /16:36 05.06.2002/ Iran proposes joint gas projects to Azerbaijan, Turkey, Turkmenistan Baku, June 5, 2002. (CNA). A representative from Iran has called on Azerbaijan, Turkey and Turkmenistan to implement joint projects to produce and transport natural gas to the world markets, Interfax reports. Akhmad Rakhgozar, vice president of the Iranian National Oil Company, said at the international conference Caspian Oil and Gas 2002 that total reserves of oil and gas in these countries would meet requirements in European countries for hydrocarbons. Rakhgozar noted that Iran supports projects to transport Caspian oil to the world markets through its territory or by schemes to exchange oil in the Caspian and Persian Gulf. He said that the use of Iranian infrastructure and territory to transport oil would reduce transport costs by $2 per barrel. At the same time he drew the attention of European countries to Iranian gas, reserves of which amount to 15% of the world's total, and called for the implementation of projects to transport Iranian gas to Western Europe, Pakistan and India. CNA/www.caspian.ru *** /14:50 06.06.2002/ Bush praises Baku-Ceyhan route for Caspian energy Baku, June 6, 2002. (CNA). The US President George W. Bush reaffirmed Washington's strong support for the strategic oil and gas pipelines intended to carry rich Caspian Sea energy resources to global markets via Georgia and Turkey in a letter released Tuesday. "Great progress has been made over the past year toward realizing our shared goal of an east-west corridor to transport Azeri and other Caspian oil and gas to global markets," Bush said in a letter to Azeri President Haidar Aliyev welcoming an international energy conference in Baku. The United States has long supported their construction as part of its efforts to secure alternative routes for oil and gas exports, limiting the sway of Russia and Iran. "I'm particularly pleased that the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline continues to advance toward construction, to be followed by the South Caucasus Gas pipeline," Bush said in the letter, read by Steven Mann, the US envoy to the Caspian region. "These projects will promote prosperity, peace and stability in the Caucasus and make an essential contribution to better integrating Azerbaijan, Georgia and other countries in the region into the global economy," Bush said. The pipeline had already received a boost Friday from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which offered $ 300 million for at least 10 percent of the project, the Associated press says. CNA/www.caspian.ru *** /13:54 06.06.2002/ BP and its partners plan USD 2.9 bln pipeline through Turkey Baku, June 6, 2002. (CNA). The British Petroleum and its partners agreed to build a USD 2.9 billion pipeline across Turkey to move Caspian Sea oil to world markets, ending more than eight years of debate. The partners, which include Eni SpA of Italy, Statoil ASA of Norway and Unocal Corp. of the U.S., have completed all the agreements to start construction and will make a final decision later this month, project director Philip Allison said at a conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. The 1,090-mile line, the longest and most expensive of three possible routes, will link fields containing as much as 40 billion barrels of oil with the Mediterranean Sea port of Ceyhan. The U.S. backed the Ceyhan route to avoid sending crude through Iran. Turkey opposed a competing pipeline through Russia to the Black Sea, which would increase tanker traffic in the Bosporus strait, Bloomberg reports. ``It's a major construction exercise, and it's the biggest pipeline BP has ever built,'' Allison said. Construction is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of next year and be completed in 2004, he said. The pipeline will have the capacity to carry about 1 million barrels of oil a day. BP is also leading a group of investors that plans to spend $13 billion to develop three oil fields in Azerbaijan's sector of the Caspian Sea. The group has increased its estimate of the fields' reserves by 15 percent to 5.3 billion barrels, said David Woodward, president of Azerbaijan International Operating Co. Output is forecast to rise to 800,000 barrels a day by 2008, from the current 120,00 barrels a day. CNA/www.caspian.ru *** AS EBRD SAYS IT WILL CO-FINANCE EXPORT PIPELINE FOR AZERBAIJANI OIL. (RFE/RL June 5) Thomas Moser, who heads the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's Baku office, announced on 31 May that the bank will provide $300 million, or just over 10 percent of the estimated total costs, toward construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, Caucasus Press and Caspian News Agency reported on 3 June. He said the bank will provide half that sum in cash and half in bank syndicate deposits. Negotiations with potential lenders are proceeding without problems and the bank should raise the funds by the end of this year, Moser added. The British Petroleum-led consortium created to implement the project plans to hold the official ceremony marking the beginning of construction on 19 June, Caucasus Press quoted Turkish Energy Minister Zeki Cakan as saying on 3 June. It is hoped that the pipeline will be completed in 2005. back to top MDBNews CIS Week 23-02 *** /14:22 10.06.2002/ Russia and Kazakhstan inked oil and gas transit pact Moscow, June 10, 2002. (CNA). Russia and Kazakhstan signed long-term agreements on transit of Kazakh oil and natural gas via Russian territory to West Europe. The presidents of the both states welcomed this agreement terming it as a critical step of increased cooperation, the Associated press reports. The agreement fopresees transportation of 3.5 billion cubic meters of gas through Russian pipelines in the first few years and increase it to up to 50 bcm in the future. "The agreements fully serve the interests of Kazakhstan and Russia," Putin said on the sidelines of an Asian security summit in St. Petersburg. "They insure a guaranteed route for Kazakh oil exports and also help Russia strengthen its status as a transit country." Kazakhstan plans to boost its gas production more than fivefold to 50 bcm a year by 2005 when it starts developing the giant Kashagan offshore Caspian gas field. The oil transit agreement will be valid for 15 years and can be extended. "Kazakhstan will benefit by getting access to global markets and Russia will reap the transit dividends," Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev said. "These agreements bring relations between Kazakhstan and Russia to a new level." CNA/www.caspian.ru |