RANDJBAR, Azerbaijan, July 10 (UPI) -- Azerbaijani villagers whose land was cut through by the Baku-Supsa oil pipeline to Georgia are railing against energy giant BP for not compensating them. At the time of the pipeline's construction, the British oil producer vowed to compensate the owners of land crossed by the 513-mile line, which now pumps some 5 million tons of crude oil every year, according to a report on Saturday in Cairo's Middle East Times. "But one day in 1997 (the year construction on the Baku-Supsa pipeline began), villager Yusouf Novruzov said, Azerbaijani 'heavies' from BP security paid a call," the report said. "They ... threatened ... confiscating our lands if we continued to cultivate them," the newspaper quoted Novruzov as saying.