 Together with oil developments in the Baku area, the need for construction of the oil pipeline from Baku to the Black Sea rose.In 1877–78, Herbert W. C. Tweddle, an American oil engineer and chemist, and Konstantin Bodisko, an official of the Russian Ministry of Finance, proposed four options for the Caspian–Black Sea oil pipelines.The pipeline proposal was submitted also by Russian mining engineer and industrialist Ivan Ilimov in 1878.