BAKU, Oct. 15 - State Oil Company of the Azerbaijani Republic (SOCAR) will decide in 2008 whether to participate in the Odessa-Brody-Plock-Gdansk oil pipeline project, SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev told journalists on Monday.

"Azerbaijan as an oil exporting country is interested in diversifying export routes. The more routes there are the better. We already have three routes and we are considering a fourth. We are interested in the Odessa-Brody-Plock-Gdansk oil pipeline and have joined the Sarmatia joint venture to prepare the feasibility study for the project," Abdullayev said.