BP Pipeline Construction Halted

The construction of Baku-Ceyhan pipeline has been halted for two weeks after the environmental checking.

However, it will not affect the planned date for the project, operated by BP, to come on stream.

?The Georgian government wants independent experts to conduct safety tests," BP executive said.
The pipeline is 70 percent complete and due to be finished in January, with the first tanker expected to load in the second quarter of 2005.
The pipeline will deliver oil from the BP -operated Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil fields in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan.