RWE AG (RWE.XE) doesn't consider Iran as a potential seventh partner in the Nabucco pipeline consortium nor as a possible supplier of natural gas, a company spokesman said Monday.
RWE AG (RWE.XE) doesn't consider Iran as a potential seventh partner
in the Nabucco pipeline consortium nor as a possible supplier of natural gas, a
company spokesman said Monday.
"We're not in talks with Iran
and don't have any plans to buy gas from Iran," said a spokesman for
the company's midstream and trading unit RWE Supply & Trading.
He said RWE doesn't see Iran
as a potential seventh partner in the Nabucco pipeline, citing political
tensions over Iran's
nuclear program and the fact that the country remains a net importer of natural
gas in the foreseeable future.
RWE has repeatedly said Nabucco will initially be supplied with gas from Azerbaijan, Iraq
and Turkmenistan.
The company was reacting to statements Saturday by the managing director of the
National Iranian Gas Export Co. that said "unofficial negotiations between
some European companies and Iran
on the (Nabucco) pipeline have begun." He didn't name any country or
company.
A spokesperson for the Nabucco consortium declined to comment.
The comments came after Turkey's
prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, vowed last week to support an Iranian bid
to join the Nabucco pipeline. The pledge--made during Erdogan's visit to Tehran--was followed by a memorandum of understanding to
export Iranian natural gas to Europe through Turkey.
The 3,300-kilometer Nabucco pipeline aims to carry natural gas from Central Asia
via Turkey and the Balkan
states to Austria, bypassing
Russia and Ukraine.
In July, Turkey and four EU
countries--Austria, Hungary, Romania
and Bulgaria--agreed
to allow the pipeline to cross their territories. Iran
wants to provide gas but Europe is reluctant
to rely on the Islamic republic until tensions with the West over its nuclear
program have been resolved.
Apart from RWE, the Nabucco consortium consists of Austria's
OMV AG (OMV.VI), Turkey's Botas, Bulgaria's
Bulgarian Energy Holding, Romania's
Transgaz and Hungary's
MOL Nyrt. (MOL.BU).
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