Environmental impact assessment

Project description
and objectives:

Financing, via a special purpose vehicle, of a portion of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic's (SOCAR) share of the development costs of the South Caucasus Gas Pipeline.

The South Caucasus Gas Pipeline is a 690 kilometre, 42 inch diameter gas export pipeline from the Shah Deniz field in Azerbaijan to the Turkish-Georgian border, for the transportation of Shah Deniz gas as well as eventual gas from other gas fields in the Caspian Sea region.

There is a project summary document available for this project.

EIA summary:

EIA summary  (1.6Mb)

Full EIA availability:

Web site: www.caspiandevelopmentandexport.com/ASP/Socar.asp

Full EIA documentation is available locally in:

Azerbaijan

Enterprise Centre
Icheri Sheher
99, Mirza Mansur St.
Baku 370004
Azerbaijan
Tel: +994 12 979 624 or +994 12 979 124
Fax: +994 12 979 654
Contact: Fira Mamedova

EBRD Baku Resident Office
Landmark Building 1, 4-th Floor
96 Nizami street
Baku 370010
Tel: +994 12 97 1014/7
Fax: +994 12 97 1019
Contact: Raymond Conway, Head of the Office

Georgia

REC Caucasus office
74, Chavchavadze ave.
room 901
Tbilisi
Georgia

National Library
7 Gudiashvili str.
Tbilisi
Georgia

Rustavi Mayor's office
20, Kostava str.
Rustavi
Georgia

Akhaltsikhe Mayor's office
15, Kostava str.
Akhaltsikhe
Georgia

BTC Project
38 Saburtalo str.
Tbilisi
Georgia
Tel: +995 32 593400
Contact: Tamila Chantladze

EBRD Tbilisi Resident Office
38 Nino Chkheidze Street
Tbilisi 380002
Tel: +995 32 92 0512/13/14
Fax: +995 32 923845
Contact: Nikolay Hadjiyski, Head of the Office

And

EBRD’s Business Information Centre in London

Enquiries:

Comments on the EIA can be sent by 18 December 2003 to caspianoilandgasprojects@ebrd.com

SOCAR
73, Neftchilar ave.
Baku
Azerbaijan
Tel: +994 12 921 130
Contact: Agamahmud Siradjev

BP Office in Baku
2 Neftchilar Prospekti
Villa Petrolea
Baku
Azerbaijan
Tel: +994 12 979 000
Fax: +994 12 979 602
Contact: Yuliy Zaytsev

BTC Project Office
38 Saburtalo str.
Tbilisi
Georgia
Tel: +995 32 59 34 00
Contact: Tamila Chantladze