Case Study
Pipeline Environmental Impact Assessment
CASE STUDY Project description The Caspian Sea is rich in energy reserves, yet its landlocked position leaves it starved of direct access to world markets. During the mid to late 1990s, the two main pipelines exporting crude oil from the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian were the Western Route Export Pipeline (Baku–Supsa) and the Northern Route Export Pipeline (Baku–Novorossiysk). While undoubtedly important, the pipelines did not have the ca