U.K. oil major BP PLC (BP) and Norway's Statoil ASA (STO) are interested in joining the Trans-Anatolian pipeline project to carry Central Asian natural gas across Turkey to Europe, the head of Azerbaijan's state oil company Socar said Wednesday.
U.K.
oil
major BP PLC (BP) and
Norway
's Statoil
ASA (STO) are interested in joining the Trans-Anatolian pipeline project to
carry Central Asian natural gas across
Turkey
to
Europe
, the
head of
Azerbaijan
's
state oil company Socar said Wednesday.
Socar and
Turkey
's
Botas are proposing to build a pipeline to carry gas from
Azerbaijan
's
huge Shah Deniz field across
Turkey
. The
pipeline would compete with the European Union-backed Nabucco project.
Socar, which holds a 80% stake in the Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline project,
which is known as Tanap, is willing to sell part of its stake and BP and
Statoil have shown interest, said Socar's Chief Executive Rovnaq Abdullayev.
Only companies that can contribute gas for the pipeline will be eligible to
become partners in Tanap, Abdullayev said. Both BP and Statoil are shareholders
in Shah Deniz.
A BP spokesman said the company had been asked by Socar whether it might be
interested in taking a share in the project and that it is "considering
the proposal."
Statoil wasn't immediately available for comment.
Abdullayev also said countries, including
Ukraine
, have
also shown interest in joining the project.
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