Pipeliners

25.05.2005 7:01 [Neftegaz.ru] - Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev said yesterday, that the country’s oil companies would pump large amounts of its crude through a $4 billion U.S.-backed pipeline. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline is expected to go into full operation six months from now and become a major competitor to traditional export routes for Caspian oil that pass through Russia.