News.AZ: Nabucco not dead

Turkey’s energy and natural resources minister said yesterday that it would not be appropriate to say the Nabucco project is over.

Minister Yıldız said the project would probably survive as “Nabucco West,” a smaller, shorter pipeline, widely thought likely to begin at the Bulgarian-Turkish border rather than in Azerbaijan. This was the plan announced by Nabucco executives earlier this week.

“In the end, I believe whatever the name of the project is, the most important thing is that it is do-able,” Yıldız told an interview with the Financial Times.  MORE