Nabucco gets boost with Turkmenistan pledge
EU officials said they’ve received what the fledgling pipeline project needed most — a dedicated supply — from Turkmenistan during a recent meeting.
“For the first time, we have a concrete volume for Nabucco which comes from Turkmenistan alone,” said a spokeswoman for Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the EU commissioner for external relations, the BBC reports.
Nabucco is a project aimed at sending 31 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Europe as its consumers attempt to diversify from its growing Russian reliance. Russia is also pushing for pipeline projects, such as South Stream, which would diversify the routes through which the gas it controls flows to Europe.
Turkmenistan has agreed to supply a Russian project as well, and questions remain as to who will build the Nabucco pipeline and what other sources of gas will be dedicated to it.
