By Robert M. Cutler
November 7th, 2016, The CACI Analyst
According to Azerbaijan’s energy minister Natig Aliev, his country and Kazakhstan will construct an oil pipeline under the Caspian Sea to provide additional necessary routes for export of Kazakhstani oil from the offshore supergiant Kashagan field, which has finally entered commercial production after years of delay. The two sides appear unbothered by the sometimes vexatious and still unsettled matter of the Caspian Sea’s legal regime, which has for nearly two decades prevented Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan from constructing a natural gas pipeline under the sea between their two countries.
- Kazakhstan
- Azerbaijan
- Central Asia
- South Caucasus
- European Union
- Eastern Parternship
- Ukraine
- Poland
- Caspian Sea
- Oil and gas
- European energy security
- Transcaspian Oil Transport System TCOTS
- Kazakhstan Caspian Transportation System KCTS
- Transcaspian Oil Pipeline TCOP
- Aqtau Port
- Caspian Pipeline Consortium CPC pipeline
- Black Sea
- Georgia
- Odessa port
- Euro Asian Oil Transportation Corridor EAOTC
- Odessa Brody Pipeline OBP
- KazMunaiGaz
- Azerbaijan SOCAR
- Transport Corridor Europe Caucasus Asia TRACECA
- Brody Adamowo link
- Eskene Kuryk KCTS
- Legal status of the Caspian Sea
- Kashagan field