Azerbaijan ready for transit of 20m tons of Caspian oil – official
Energy Minister Natig Aliyev has said Azerbaijan’s infrastructure allows to "easily" transport up to 20 million tons of oil from Kazakhstan and other Caspian littoral states through Azerbaijani territory.
"The project on creating a Eurasia transport corridor that envisions supplying oil from the Caspian region to Europe is currently in the focus of attention," Aliyev told reporters.
Azerbaijan is closely involved in the project on building an extension of the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline to Plock and Gdansk as part of the Eurasia transport corridor. Azerbaijan’s state oil company Socar is one of the partners in the international pipeline consortium Sarmatia.
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