By 2017 the export capacity of the huge Shah Deniz gas field is expected to more than double.
Bride Deniz Tura told us that three of her friends are coming from China for the upcoming wedding.
Symbolically it would be a bitter blow for BP, but markets might actually see some upside exiting Shah Deniz.
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The main opposition leader, Deniz Baykal, has at times seemed even keener on a coup than are the generals themselves.
Start lumping pipeline construction costs across Azerbaijan, Turkey and Europe into the mix, then Shah Deniz becomes a mind blowingly expensive project.
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At the time he was working as a spokesman for BP, the developer of the Shah Deniz field and the regime's most faithful prop.
Deniz Baykal, the leader of the Republican People's Party, spends most of his time attacking laws that could help Turkey's bid for EU membership.
Last year Deniz Baykal was forced out of the CHP leadership after a video surfaced purportedly showing him and his mistress padding about in their underpants.
Unlike its other Shah Deniz II partners, the British oil major has made it a personal mission to get the best possible terms they can from any upstream developments.
The hope in Ankara is that the new gas pipeline which will emerge from the Shah Deniz deal could follow the same route and help reduce the cost of both projects.
As desirable as that is for the Shah Deniz II players, they need to remember the cardinal rules of the gas game: The ultimate resource holder, in this case Azerbaijan, always holds the aces.
Some insiders even think Shah Deniz II will initially plump for TAP, allow Nabucco West to collapse, before resurrecting SEEP plans as and when more Azeri gas becomes available to fill Southern and Central European routes.
If SOCAR acquires the Greek company, expect the breaks to be put on any TAP ambitions, particularly as it would be very easy to resurrect the ITGI (Interconnector Turkey-Greece-Italy) pipeline plans, previously spearheaded by DEPA. Far more importantly, Azerbaijan also knows that for the Nabucco consortium to stand any chance of winning, it needs fresh funding in place, and the strategic involvement of a Shah Deniz II player.
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