Turkey Emphasizes Support for Nabucco

Politics ♦ Published: January 21, 2012; 13:38 ♦ (Vindobona)

Besides the Russian South-Stream project, Turkey also shows support for Nabucco, where Austrian OMV is strongly engaged in.

Turkey Emphasizes Support for Nabucco / Picture: © Vindobona.org

After Turkey has approved the construction of the Russian gas pipeline project “South Stream”, the European project “Nabucco” is still supported. “We put effort in the realization of the project in order to secure Europe´s energy supply.”, the Turkish Minister of Energy Taner Yildiz emphasized. Nabucco is a rival project so South Stream, as it is designed as alternative to…