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National Geographic Italia website publishes Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) “Un bagno di petrolio”

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Un bagno di petrolio National Geographic Italia 20 giugno 2011 (June 20, 2011) Dall’Azerbaigian alla Turchia, passando per la Georgia. L’oleodotto BTC porta verso occidente non solo il greggio. Un fotoracconto tra i popoli e i contrasti del Caucaso lungo la strada del petrolio che fu al centro della scacchiera geopolitica della regione fotografie di Amanda Rivkin     L’Azerbaigian è noto fin dai tempi di Marco Polo per le sue sorgenti di olio nero. Ha riserve per 1,2 miliardi di barili di greggio. Marianne Lavelle con le sue foto segue il percorso dell’oleodotto BTC (Baku, Tbilisi, Cehuyan) non solo un’enorme infrastruttura energetica, ma un caso geopolitico tra paesi e culture secolari. Vedi su Limes la carta del percorso del BTC. Leggi anche sul blog MappaMundi Nella foto, Quliyev Jeyyub si rilassa con un bagno nel greggio nella rinomata casa di cura Naftalan, 360 chilometri a ovest di Baku. La Spa petrolifera, costruita nel 1926, è uno dei diversi centri che promuovono le qualità terapeutiche del petrolio. Gli ospiti sperano di alleviare i dolori alle …

June Newsletter: National Geographic publishes BTC pipeline / Fulbright to Azerbaijan

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This is a pretty special newsletter for me concerning announcements. First, I have graduated from the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service, which ends a two-year chapter of my life first in Washington, DC and then commuting between there and New York over the past year. While it was a fascinating educational experience, I am ready to move on to new projects and pastures. As a photographer, my work grew as well over those two years, for me most notably last summer when I was a recipient of a National Geographic Young Explorers Grant which facilitated travel photographing the social and economic life along the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline which delivers Caspian crude to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan by way of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. Recently, this work was published on the National Geographic website in a photo gallery entitled, “At Five Years, BTC Pipeline Moves Oil, Culture,” with accompanying text by Marianne Lavelle. Lastly, the biggest bit of news. As a consequence of this work and my interest in the people, culture and …

Young Explorers’ Grant Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline Photo Essay Published On National Geographic Website

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Pictures: At Five Years Old, BTC Pipeline Moves Oil, Culture National Geographic June 10, 2011 A New World Unveiled Photograph by Amanda Rivkin The landlocked Asian nation of Azerbaijan forged a powerful connection to the West five years ago with the first delivery of oil through one of the most ambitious energy projects of a generation—a $4.2 billion, 1,100-mile (1,800-kilometer) pipeline to the Turkish Mediterranean coast. When the deal was originally struck in 1994 for the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline, the late Azerbaijan President Heydar Aliyev called it “the Contract of the Century”—the first time a former Soviet state had signed a deal for its oil to reach international markets without going through Russia. It was also hailed as a major policy success for the United States, which had engaged in years of intensive diplomacy to build an avenue for Caspian oil wealth that did not rely on Moscow. (Related: BP’s map of the pipeline route) The BTC has the capacity to deliver 1.2 million barrels of oil per day to the Turkish port of Ceyhan …