Kazakhstan do not know its oil volume for pipeline Baku - Ceyhan

/IRBIS, Nov.23, 99/ - According to REUTERS, which cites the yesterday' TV interview of Nursultan Nazarbaev, Kazakhstan is going to participate in the Baku - Ceyhan project (an oil pipeline from Azerbaijan to Turkey), but without the rigid delivery obligations. "It was recorded, that Kazakhstan is obliged to deliver of 20 million tons of oil (for Baku - Ceyhan pipeline). I have told, that we can not to take such obligations. We have argued till the morning, but I've spoken, that now there is a drilling on the Caspian shelf, the oil output will become known to the end of the year", - has told Nazarbaev. Last week Nazarbaev participated in the signing of the intergovernmental documents about the Baku - Ceyhan pipeline construction at the OSEC summit. Azerbaijan, Turkey and USA actively support this project, but Russia offers to transport the Caspian oil through its own territory. "The Baku - Ceyhan pipeline is impossible without the Kazakhstan's oil, therefore it is a problem to decide all - not offending neither Turkey, nor Russia, nor USA", - has told Nazarbaev. In 1998 Kazakhstan has extracted about 28 million tons of oil. In 1999 Kazakhstan is going to export to 10 million tons of oil through the Atyrau- Samara pipeline. After growth of Tengiz deposit production Kazakhstan is going to export the oil using the pipeline of Caspian Pipeline Consortium to the Russian port of Novorossisk, which first-order construction will be completed by 2001.