Azeri Shakh Deniz project on track for Oct sanction: BP
Infrastructure under consideration includes a new, 690-km pipeline through Azerbaijan and Georgia to the Turkish border and an offshore platform in the Caspian Sea. The Turkish government also is considering building an LNG plant.
"We're still looking at end-October, there are a number of issues to consider," a company spokesman says. BP's David Woodward, head of the company's operations in Azerbaijan, said Thursday that the project partners were in talks to review "the concept of Shakh Deniz," according to Agence France Presse.