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South Caucasus Pipeline Construction Starts In Azerbaijan
Construction of the Azerbaijani sector of the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) started on Saturday. Welding operations are expected to take 10 months, and will take about 39,000 joints to be connected in Azerbaijan, BP Azerbaijan reported.
The Georgian section of the SCP will require 22,000 pipe joints. The pipes, 42 inches in diameter and 11.6 meters per joint in length, are supplied by Sumitomo Corporation for the Azerbaijan and Georgia sections.
CCIC is the pipelay contractor for the 443-km Azeri section of SCP, extending from the Sangachal Terminal to the Georgian border. The remaining 250- km section lying from Georgia to the Turkish border will be built by Spie Capag Petrofac Joint Venture.
"This marks the beginning of the journey which will take us to the delivery of Shahdaniz gas to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey before winter of 2006," Rob Kelly, BP Vice-President for Shah Deniz said.
The South Caucasus Pipeline will take gas from Azerbaijan through Georgia to the Turkish border. It is being built by the same BP Project Team, using the same pipelay and facilities contractors and in the same corridor as the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline. This is aimed at minimizing the environmental and social impact and saving capital and operating costs.
The SCP construction is scheduled to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2005.
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