"Will new pipeline ease the West's energy woes?
The 1,094-mile Caspian oil duct, inaugurated Thursday in Turkey, may not be as tangle-free as America had hoped.
By Nicholas Birch | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
ISTANBUL, TURKEY – As global leaders prepare to tackle energy issues at this weekend's G-8 summit in Russia, dignitaries from 50 countries are gathering Thursday on Turkey's Mediterranean coast to inaugurate a key piece of the puzzle.
Twelve years in the making, the $4 billion Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline will pump 1 million barrels per day of Caspian Sea oil toward Western markets when it becomes fully operational next year."
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