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European funding for the prospective Trans-Caspian gas pipeline may include the European Investment Bank (EIB). Speaking to the Trend news agency, an unnamed source within the European Commission said that a number of financial institutions may be involved in the financing. "The European Financial...
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said that his country is ready and open to participate in the Trans Anatolian pipeline project, in a financial and technical capacity. At a meeting with Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan today, the prime minister said that Ukraine wished to "both make...
The Azeri-Turkish agreements of late 2011 have opened up real possibilities for effecting positive gains in the European and trans-Caspian energy equation. These agreements arranging for the transport of Azeri gas to Turkey and beyond create for the first time both a dedicated pipeline to bring Azeri...
Ukraine will look to the Trans-Caspian pipeline and reverse flow through existing pipelines to diversify its imports, a Ukrainian minister has said. The country, which imports approximately 70 per cent of its annual gas needs from Russia, has long been seeking to break its dependence on Russian supply...
Turkmenistan is set to supply 10 billion cubic metres of gas through the Trans-Caspian pipeline, Azeri Energy Minister Natig Aliyev has said. Speaking in Baku yesterday, Minister Aliyev said that negotiations were now ongoing to work out the particulars of such a deal but that the present focus was...
Ukraine reportedly plans to invest 790 million euros in the Trans Caspian Pipeline project. Ukraine has ent an official proposal to Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan on its participation in the project, which would see a pipeline from the Turkmen coast of the Caspian Sea to Azerbaijani coast, where it will...
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said that Ukraine is interested in participating the Trans-Caspian pipeline project during a meeting with Azeri president Ilham Aliyev today. The Trans-Caspian pipeline, which would run from Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan, aims to bring gas from Turkmenistan and...
The Trans-Caspian Pipeline seemed to move closer to reality with talks earlier this month in Brussels among the European Union, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan, but so far there is only the semblance of momentum. As we have seen before with these negotiations for many years, the EU is over-optimistic, Azerbaijan...
Nabucco is dead or at least diminished, say Western analysts, killed by huge costs, logistical problems, policy shifts and consumption downturns, and the most important factor – lack of gas sources. Neither Azerbaijan or Turkmenistan, first pressured by Russia, then enlisted in smaller regional...
At a summit meeting in Moscow before the holidays, the chief item on the table for President Dmitry Medvedev and President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov was the Trans-Caspian Pipeline (TCP), Russian media reported, although the two leaders avoided public mention of the long-stalled project. A source in...