"Turkey to build new oil pipeline to ease burden of Istanbul, Canakkale straits
Turkey will start constructing a new oil pipeline in 2007 to ease the burden of the Istanbul and Canakkale straits, which carry 120 million barrels of oil a year, local daily 'Zaman' reported on Friday.
The 550-km-long Samsun-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline Project, which was jointly projected by the Turkish Calik Group and Italy's Eni, is expected to take two years in construction."
More:People's Daily Online -- Turkey to build new oil pipeline to ease burden of Istanbul, Canakkale straits
