Purpose of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
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.
ESIA Summary
Full ESIA 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
This document was prepared at an early stage of project development, before consideration by the EBRD Board of Directors. Details of a project may change following disclosure.
Environmental and Social Impact Assessments and ESIA summaries are produced by project sponsors, and the EBRD makes them available without any comment or implied endorsement. Any views expressed or statements made in the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment or the ESIA Summary do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the EBRD.
Last updated 25 June 2014
