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By Christian Dolezal, Head of Corporate Communication & Public Affairs at Nabucco European gas demand, although not at the levels of a decade ago, is forecast to increase (1). Consequently, gas will provide a solid platform for creating sustainable, long term growth. The future of the European gas...
The third and fourth sections of Russia’s “South Stream” will be completed by 2018. However, supranational structures in Brussels and their representatives in Berlin still cannot set forth a predictable and unified position on this project of undisputed geopolitical importance. ...
The countries already signed up in support of the Nabucco West project have declared that the pipeline could also supply the Western Balkans and the Visegrad group of countries. Visegrad comprises Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The Nabucco consortium held a meeting in Bucharest Monday...
The Nabucco consortium says shipping-company interest in registration and capacity booking in the Nabucco West pipeline has already exceeded expectations just a fortnight after the launch of the registration phase of the Open Season. Nabucco has attracted strong interest from a variety of shippers...
For more than ten years harsh negotiations among different oil majors and pipeline consortia have been taking place about the Southern Gas Corridor, all of them seeking to transit 10 bcm/year of natural gas that will be produced from the Shah Deniz giant gas field of Azerbaijan to the European Union.
The chief executive of Austrian energy group OMV has hinted that sale of its recently-acquired stake in the Nabucco pipeline could take place within weeks. "It is true that we are negotiating with someone. I can't name any names, but it might be announced in the coming weeks," Gerhard Roiss said...
The Southern Corridor preferred route selection has reached the final stretch, with a final decision due mid-June between the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) and Nabucco West. One of the countries involved, Greece, aims to promote TAP and has accelerated its efforts in the matter...
The company behind the Nabucco West pipeline says it is ready to deal with expressions of interest in using its facility for transport, and has launched what it calls "Open Season." Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH announced Monday the launch of the process for booking capacity on the pipeline...
“What we most need to avoid is a discussion on the relative merits of Nabucco West and TAP [the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline]”. So said EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger in a mid-April letter, obtained by news agencies, to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. He said that current...
The Working Group of the Directorate General for the EU Commission has recently chosen several gas projects as 'crucial' for the overall energy security in Europe. This decision will play its role regarding the Southern Corridor developments, and the emerging architecture of natural gas infrastructure...
