PATCHWORK OF PIPELINES BEING DEVELOPED TO BRING HYDROCARBONS FROM THE CASPIAN TO EUROPE
March 1st, 2011
BY MARK ROWE
THE FUEL pipeline network around the Caspian and Black Seas increasingly resembles a London Underground map, a comparison enhanced by the latest potential addition to the lattice, known as the AGRI scheme.
AGRI, the acronym for the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania Interconnector, is a proposal for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) transportation across the Black Sea. It would use an existing trans-Caucasus pipeline to take Azeri gas to Georgia, to be liquefied at an LNG terminal yet to be constructed - probably the port of Kulevi, north of Poti. The gas would ...
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