Rules change in gas pipeline power games
Russian gas monopoly Gazprom flirts with Romania to join its gas pipeline South Stream.The EU’s Nabucco pipeline floats the idea of bringing in the Russians.
The Italians talk of merging the two projects.
Have the proposed new gas pipelines between east and west abandoned their initial intentions or is compromise the way forward?
Report by Michael Bird
April 2010 - From the Print Edition
The battle for increasing the number of gas pipelines from central Asia and Russia to western Europe has taken over from the nuclear arms race of the 1980s as today’s defining political game between east and west.
Russia’s ambition is to increase the number of supply routes to western Europe, while western Europe’s ambition is to increase its number of suppliers other than Russia.
Meanwhile eastern European nations such as Romania and Bulgaria want to increase both the number of supp... To continue reading this article you have to be registered
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