ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline

Imagine that you have a toy car and you want to move it from your playroom to your friend's house next door. You can't just carry it all the way there, it's too heavy! So you decide to make a long tube that will go from your playroom, through your yard, and into your friend's house. This tube is like the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline.

Now, instead of a toy car, imagine that there is something called oil that we use to make things like gasoline to power cars and trucks. There is a lot of this oil in a place called Azerbaijan, which is next to a big body of water called the Caspian Sea.

The oil can't just be put in trucks and driven all the way to other countries that need it, like Turkey or Europe. That would take too long and be too expensive. So, people decided to make a pipeline that would go from Azerbaijan, through Georgia, and into Turkey. Like the tub you made for your toy car, this pipeline is a big, long tube that carries the oil from one place to another.

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline is very important because it allows oil to be transported more easily and efficiently, which means that people in other countries can have access to the oil they need to power their cars and other things. But, building a pipeline also comes with some challenges like making sure it's safe and making sure that the people and animals living near the pipeline are not harmed.