Wow, I am going to do some research on this. It’s the Russian specialty of the decade, of course, separatism.
http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=430&contentId=2000578
This is a good article.Big projects have been going on with gas and oil.(BP is in Azerbaijan) Note this paragraph:
Alongside the SCP, we’re managing the construction of the much longer Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline. It will run from Sangachal all the way across Turkey to the coast, linking the Caspian and Mediterranean. When complete, the 1,760km of pipe will hold 10 million barrels of oil at a time. The BTC will bypass the congested sea-lanes of the Bosphorus, reducing the risk of spills while strengthening the economic ties between Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and the West.