(It's) Official White House Press Release on the Caspian Sea Pipeline.

www.whitehouse.gov ^ | November 28, 2001 | White House Press Release

[It'salmosttolate]

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
November 28, 2001

President's Statement on Caspian Pipeline Consortium

Statement by the President

I congratulate Russia, Kazakhstan, and Oman, and their consortium partners, for the commissioning of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC). U.S. firms, notably ChevronTexaco and ExxonMobil, have played leading roles in this project. These facilities represent the culmination of years of effort. They are examples to the world that the United States, Russia, and Kazakhstan are cooperating to build prosperity and stability in this part of the world.

The CPC highlights the important progress by countries in the Caspian region in building a transparent and stable environment for international trade and investment. The CPC project also advances my Administrations National Energy Policy by developing a network of multiple Caspian pipelines that also includes the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan, Baku-Supsa, and Baku-Novorossiysk oil pipelines and the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipeline. These projects will help diversify U.S. energy supply and enhance our energy security, while supporting global economic growth.

[Shermy]

Mentions the Ceyhan route. Sounds like all the proposed westerly routes will be built, not just some.

Link: Caspian oil

[johniegrad]

The lefties are going to have a ball with this.

[Shermy]

Interesting also, Oman is diversifying its oil interests, and contrary to the best interests of Saudi Arabia.

[jae471]

Time for the US, Canada, Mexico, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Kazakstan to form our own little 'OPEC'. We can call it FMEO. Can anyone guess what that stands for?

[meridia]

*ping*

[It'salmosttolate]

OH LOOK at THAT! It goes right down through Afganistan.

Pipeline From Kazakhstan Officially Opens
ALMATY, Kazakhstan--Investors and high-ranking officials from Kazakhstan, the United States, and Russia on 27 November quietly celebrated the grand opening of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium's (CPC) 900-mile pipeline.

[Shermy]

There going to have a "ball" because they don't understand geography. They think the war is about "oil." But it isn't. No serious plan for transport through Afstan has been considered for years. The routes west had capacity, and are cheaper and more efficient. But for bureaucratic ossification and regional instability, the pipelines weren't hurriedly built. But Osama, to the detriment of his brethren and the rest of OPEC, has given everyone a "kick in the rear" to get moving, for various reasons. Kind of interesting that Osama, and thereby his Saudi backers, spent so much of their jihad effort in Chechnya and the Caucasus--which "just happened" to threaten the Caspian pipelines and scare away investors.

[It'salmosttolate]

It's been three years since Congress discussed removing the government of Afghanistan to make way for an oil pipeline, five months since the US Government told India there would be an invasion of Afghanistan in October, four months since BBC heard about the planned invasion of Afghanistan, nine months since Jane's Defense got word of the planned invasion of Afghanistan, and of course, only two months since the attacks on the World Trade Towers that got the American people angered into support of the war that everybody on the planet BUT Americans had been told was on the way.

[Shermy]

f middle east oil?

BTW, the green "afghan" pipeline has not been seriously considered. And it doesn't reach to the Caspian fields. Note it is "Pakistani" proposed--for obvious reasons. The Unocal plan was for natural gas to Pakistan--unrelated to any supplies to any western country.

[johniegrad]

Unfortunately, all your links come back as "bad request".

[annalex]

Caspian caviar bump

[JD86]

Another silver lining.

[JD86]

thanks for the flag

[SamAdams76]

Memo to the Arab oil sheiks: Your days of having us over a barrel are numbered.

[LN2Campy]

Memo to the Arab oil sheiks: Your days of having us over a barrel are numbered.

Yeah, now it'll just be a bunch of goat-humping central asians instead. Big deal.

[It'salmosttolate]

I wonder why.

You have suggestions why?

[SW6906]

Yeah, but does this mean $0.50/gallon gas for my SUV, boat, backup generator and chainsaws?

[The_Expatriate]

We can call it FMEO. Can anyone guess what that stands for?

Funding Myself by Executive Order?
Frustrating My Exxon Opponents?

[SW6906]

Something wrong with FR redirect. If you remove the redirect HTTP code in the URL and the last quote, they work fine.