"Turkey courts Turkmenistan to diversify energy imports
By JOHN C.K. DALY, UPI International Correspondent
Published: Sept. 3, 2008 at 7:01 PM
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- The implications of the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia continue to reverberate far beyond the two countries. The confrontation exposed the vulnerability of Western export routes of Azeri Caspian oil across Georgia into Turkey via the $3.6 billion, 1,092-mile Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. The million-barrel-per-day BTC pipeline, the world's second-longest, began operations in May 2006 and provided a fiscal bonanza not only to exporter Azerbaijan, but to Georgia and Turkey as well, which were able to collect lucrative transit fees."
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