Turkish officials have scheduled a June 19 ceremony to mark the start of construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline. Several global oil conglomerates are placing large bets that the ...

The Baku Tbilisi Ceyhan Pipeline Co. has begun construction on its 1,768 km pipeline from Baku, Azerbaijan—via Tbilisi, Georgia—to Ceyhan, Turkey. The 1 million b/d BTC pipeline will be the most ...

Construction of the Turkish section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline goes on strictly to schedule and by the year-end the first tanker with the Azerbaijan’s oil will be shipped from the ...

Manana Kochladze (Courtesy Photo) PRAGUE, July 12, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Since its inception, environmentalists have rallied against the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyan (BTC) pipeline, which pumps Caspian oil to the ...

Although great care was taken in dealing with environmental problems, the region’s fragile political stability, and about 20,000 local landowners during the BTC construction, not everything went ...

No hearing date has been set by the Georgian court that will handle Green Alternative's appeal. The environment group, which filed its appeal in May, asserts the pipeline endangers the ecologically ...

With a shortage of qualified help in the Northwest's hottest industry, Whatcom builders have partnered with a local college to attract more construction workers. The Building Industry Association of ...