Azeri BP vice-president welcomes LUKoil's "interest" in Baku-Ceyhan.

Text of report by Azerbaijani news agency Mediapress

Baku, 20 December: "We believe in the economic success of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan main export pipeline project," the vice-president of the British-US BP company for exports, (?Michael Townsend), has said.

Townsend welcomed the interest shown in this project by some Russian companies, particularly LUKoil, which now considers the future oil pipeline to be economically attractive.

We can note in this connection that the press service of this Russian company has issued a statement saying that "the Azerbaijani media have recently been publishing erroneous information alleging that the company has …