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Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras met yesterday with Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbajian, to discuss the prospects of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), according to Italian news agency ANSA. The agency reports that Samaras aimed at convincing Aliyev that Greece is committed to concluding TAP...
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 Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) has announced that the European Commission has formally approved the Trans Adriatic Pipeline’s (TAP) application for Third Party Access (TPA) exemption for the initial capacity of 10bcm. The receipt of approval follows consents received from the relevant...
By Kjetil Tungland, Managing Director of Trans Adriatic Pipeline Job interviews are an exciting, albeit challenging, process. The intense preparations, the anxiousness about the result, and finally the thrill of being selected are a truly unique experience. A similar ‘interview process’...
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...
“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...
The governments of Albania, Greece and Italy have created a special committee to coordinate support for the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), one of two major contenders for the contract to convey gas from the Shah Deniz 2 field off Azerbaijan. External Affairs Director for TAP, Michael Hoffmann, said...
EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger has expressed concern that the impending decision on the preferred route for the delivery of Caspian natural gas to Europe may become a divisive distraction amongst member states. The Nabucco West and Trans Adriatic Pipeline consortiums are vying to...
