The Nabucco gas pipeline, which seeks to link central Asia’s gas fields with Europe, is on track despite the Russia-Georgia conflict, the project’s chief executive said in an interview published yesterday.
Speaking to The Financial Times, Reinhard Mitschek said the conflict had “no impact” on planning for the US- and EU-backed pipeline, which is expected to be completed by 2013.
The 3,300-kilometer pipeline is to run via Turkey and the Balkan states to Austria, and Mitschek told the business daily that a market survey had shown “huge demand” for it.
(ΚΑΤΗΙΜΕΡΙΝΙ, 09/08/2008)