BP’s partners in the project include State Oil Co. ofAzerbaijan, or Socar, Norway’s Statoil ASA, Iran’s Naftiran Intertrade Co.,Turkey’s Turkiye Petrolleri AO, and OAO Lukoil.

The 3,500-kilometer corridor will include threepipelines connecting BP’s Sangachal terminal south of Baku, the Azeri capital,with southern Italy via Georgia, Turkey and Greece.

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