Posted on 07/26/2002 8:34:56 PM PDT by robbinsj
The Serbian Ministry of Energy and Mining has welcomed the agreement signed on 22nd July between the United States Trade and Development Agency and the government of Croatia on a US donation for a feasibility study on the construction of a pipeline linking the Black Sea and the Adriatic. The project would connect the Romanian port of Constanta, the refinery at Pancevo near Belgrade (which was heavily bombed by Nato in 1999) and the Italian port of Trieste. It would enable the transport of Caspian Sea oil to Europe, making maximum use of existing facilities. The minister, Kori Udovicki, said that the pipeline would represent a considerable saving for Yugoslavia, the region and the rest of Europe.
This latest project is in addition to the AMBO project (Albanian Macedonian Bulgarian Oil Pipeline), which is expected to be built from Bulgaria to Albania by 2005. [Tanjug, 23rd July 2002. For the press communiqué on the feasibility study, see TDA SUPPORTS CONSTANTA TO TRIESTE OIL PIPELINE DEVELOPMENT
For more on the pipeline and the US role in building it, see Croatian port and pipeline system perfectly situated for deliveries of Russian and Caspian Sea oil to the West
A map of the proposed pipeline (indicated in yellow) can be found at .
For a comprehensive guide to US energy strategy and oil pipelines, see the web page of the US Department of Energy, especially . Unfortunately, the maps of pipelines were removed from the web site in June while they are evaluated "for national security implications."]
It is interesting that Parsons engineering keept their piece of the TRACECA pie since 1999!
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Monitorul on-line November 25, 1999
TRACECA project is still valid
In spite of the agreement concluded recently in Istanbul between the USA and Turkey as regards the building of the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, the supporters of the Constanta-Trieste variant are still optimistic. "Romania must urge the approaches regarding the building of the Constanta-Trieste pipeline, the officials of the Forum Romania at the Crossroads say. Their optimism is also nourished by the US Ambassador in Bucharest. Any insinuation that we don't support other ways is ungrounded", he said.
"Romania must begin at the end of the next year the building of the pipeline that would transport the oil from the Caspian Sea to Europe lest it should be avoided by those who would invest in these projects, as the transportation of the oil would start in 2001", the President of the Forum Romania at the Crossroads, Dan Capatina, declared Tuesday in a news conference. Capatina said that the Romanian authorities should finalize as soon as possible the legislation referring to concessions and oil and they should also take approaches for founding a multinational concern to finalize the construction of the pipeline. "The contacts for founding a concern were begun by the American firm parsons, which is elaborating the pre-feasibility project for the Constanta-Trieste route, but the must be finalized by the Government", Capatina said.
The president of the Forum Romania at the Crossroads says that the variants regarding the transportation of the oil from the Caspian Sea - Baku-Ceyhan and Tenghiz-Novorossiisk with a prolongation to Constanta and Trieste - are, according to the Romanian variant proposed within the TRACECA project complementary, and not competing, the oil sources and the sale markets of the two projects being different.
The Baku-Ceyhan project is dedicated to the transportation of the oil from the south and west of the Caspian Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, while the Tenghiz_Novorossiik project is dedicated to the transportation of the oil from the North of the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea. The US Ambassador in Bucharest James Rosapepe said that the USA had been supporting for several years several many for the transportation of the oil from the Caspian Sea and the fact that Azerbaidjan, Georgia and Turkey signed the treaty regarding the foundation of the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline at the OSCE reunion doesn't mean it doesn't support anymore the Constanta-Trieste variant." "Any insinuation that we do not support other routes is ungrounded. It is the market that will finally decide which of these routes are more interesting and when", the US Ambassador mentioned. In fact, all the western economic analysts claim that the Constanta-Trieste route is perfectly valid as it will supply the Caspian fuels to the European Union, while the Ceyhan route supported by the USA aim at other markets.
A toast is offered,
'MAY THE CASPIAN SEA OIL WELLS BE AS DRY A BONE STUCK IN THE SAND IN THE SAHARA DESERT WHERE THE HOT DRY WINDS SLOWLY REDUCE IT TO DUST!"
Thanks for the heads up, robbinsj. Excellent find.
SCOTCH AND SODA? ok WITH YOU ?
NEEDS TO BE SOMETHING STRONGER, PERHAPS?
Yes, sir ree....the truth comes up and hits real hard right between the eyes....
And, JUST today, I was just reading about how the poor Serbs and Romas in KosovO are practically confined in concentration camps....inadequate food and medicine...children always frightened!!
Anybody else need a drink???
With a "Milosevic in power" Serbia/Yugoslavia would remain a sovereign country in Russia sphere of influence.
It is ironic that the Serbs were defeated by the black plague of the late 1380's and the battle at the field of Blackbirds (a draw) was just a consequence of the pandemic. Likewise the West is being slowly rotted away by the Albanian mafia plague of the 1990's. This Albanian mafia plague has finally been reported and recognized in Britain: Revealed: Scandal of the teenage sex slaves.
It never ceases to amaze me how Western political leaders can ignore the facts about the Albanian mafias so long. When will the West realize that the Albanian mafia is a major MONEY END of Ben Laden's radical movement (the other main sources were rich Saudi's, Afghan transport mafia, and residual funds from the CIA channelled through the ISI).
I am not trying to convince you.
That pipeline link is one route. As you know, some of the others are still 'works in progress'.
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