BAKU PIPELINE
February 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation of the World Bank is heading up a groundbreaking aid deal that will try to foster key local companies who will be responsible for maintaining and managing piplelines sending natural gas and oil from central Asia to the European Union. The IFC has teamed up with BP, Norway's Statoil, GTZ, (the German agency for technical assistance), and the Baku Enterprise Centre in Azerbaijan to launch a programme to help local businesses benefit from gas and oil investments, notably the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline to ...
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