March 2003

1,770 km long Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Main Oil Pipeline:

AIOC awards ATMOSi the Supply of Two Different Leak detection systems ATMOS^TM Pipe leak detection systems and the training simulator.

ATMOS^TM Pipe leak detection systems & ATMOS^TM HAL liquid/hydraulic training simulator (with Hydraulic Analysis Ltd) is current under design.

The 1,770 km long Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline would, starting in 2005, transport up to one million barrels per day (bpd) - 50 million tons per annum - of crude oil from an expanded Sangachal terminal near Baku in Azerbaijan, through Georgia to a new marine terminal at Ceyhan in Turkey on the Mediterranean coast.

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan main export oil pipeline, which, along with the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzrum pipeline, is intended to connect the Caspian Sea coast to the Turkish Mediterranean in order to provide oil and gas for European markets. The project is led by Azerbaijan International Oil Company (AIOC), which is led by British Petroleum Amoco (BP).