Bun... deci, suspans pân' la toamnă ?!

Se pare că unii pe la UE pun tălpi serioase proiectului Nabucco. Ştire - Sofia News Agency (novinite.com):

EU to Decide whether to Build Nabucco by End of 2010 - Report

Energy | March 5, 2010, Friday

The planned Nabucco natural gas pipeline. File Photo

The European Union is going to decide by the end of 2010 whether to go ahead with realization of the Nabucco gas transit pipeline at all.

The decision will be made at a special conference, according to an unnamed diplomatic source from the European Commission cited by the Russian agency ITAR-TASS.

The source is quoted as saying that the future of Nabucco is largely unclear and depends a great deal on whether the EU will managed to conclude an agreement for long-term gas supplies with Turkmenistan.

According to the report, the EU and Turkmenistan are engaged in intensive negotiations, and the EU hopes that by April 2010, it will be able to strike the desired deal with the leadership in Ashkhabad, which would secure the necessary quantities of natural gas to fill the pipe.

The construction of the EU-sponsored Nabucco pipeline, in which Bulgaria is a key transit country, is supposed to be completed by 2014, and to cost EUR 8 B. The length of the transit pipe will be 3 300 km.

P.S.

Comisarul U.E. pentru energie, Oettinger (Germania):

"Earlier this week, Mr Oettinger had signaled a u-turn in the commission's thinking when it comes to what is perceived as Nabucco's rival, South Stream, the Russian-sponsored pipeline set to tap the same Caspian resources.

Speaking at a Bulgarian forum, the commissioner said that the EU was ready to back South Stream as long as the project would meet all the "technical requirements to security."

( Articol la EUobserver.com )