Azerbaijan
,
Georgia
,
Ukraine
,
Poland
and
Lithuania
have completed a feasibility study
for a pipeline to carry Caspian oil to
Gdansk
in
Poland
.
Azerbaijan
's minister of industry and energy, Natig
Aliyev, said on
Azerbaijan
's Lider TV on Tuesday that the study
was complete,
Bloomberg
news agency reported.
The pipeline to
Gdansk
will be an extension of the
pipeline from the
Black Sea
port
of
Odessa
to Brody.
Natig Aliyev said
that
Azerbaijan
was interested in the project as an
alternative route for supplying its oil to
Europe
.
The parties have set
up the
Sarmatia
consortium to work on the pipeline
extension to
Plock
and
Gdansk
.
The existing
Odessa-Brody pipeline is now pumping Azerbaijani crude to refineries in
Ukraine
and is also sending it through the
pipeline network to
Belarus
.