Bloomberg: Turkish-Azeri Gas Pipeline Deal Expected in January, Socar Says

Turkish and Azeri energy officials aim to finish an agreement by January on a new pipeline to ship natural gas from the BP Plc-operated Shah Deniz field to Europe via Turkey, an Azeri energy official said today.

“Any company that has gas” can join the venture to build a pipe from Turkey’s eastern border to the west, said Rovnaq Abdullayev, president of State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan, or Socar. Many members of Shah Deniz have shown interest, he said in an interview in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.  HERE