KBR to Conduct Feasibility Study for Trans-Caspian Pipelines

KBR has won the tender to conduct a feasibility study for the construction of trans-Caspian oil and natural gas pipelines announced by the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijani Republic (SOCAR).

The feasibility study will be financed with a $1.7-million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to SOCAR.

KBR is to make initial designs of pipelines, describing their commercial, technical and legal characteristics, to propose charges for shipping oil and gas to world markets, and contact principal transit countries - Kazakhstan, Georgia and Turkey - and potential gas importers in Europe.