The company said the pipeline will offer a quicker, more-economic, and more-environmentally secure way of transporting oil than in ships through the Bosporus and the Dardanelles Straits in Turkey. "ENI and Calik will carry out feasibility studies on the new transport system that includes construction of a marine terminal at Samsun and the 560-km pipeline link with Ceyhan," an ENI spokesman said. The facilities at Ceyhan will include storage facilities, and the line's capacity will be more than 1 million brl/d. The Turkish government has expressed support for the project, which is strategically important for ENI because of its activities in the Caspian Sea as operator of the giant Kashagan field.