Turkey is renewing pressure on the oil industry to cut tanker traffic through the congested Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits, tapping into fears of an environmental disaster to match BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Financial Times reports.
International oil companies, such as Chevron, ExxonMobil and BP have been invited to a meeting Thursday with the Turkish government that will seek commitments to use a planned bypass pipeline linking the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. Russia’s Rosneft and Transneft, are also invited, as are the shippers Glencore, Vitol and Trafigura.