Shah Deniz partners have two choices for export route

Significant: European Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger.

European Commission

By Kama Mustafayeva

 05 July 2012 22:59 GMT

The BP-led Shah Deniz consortium in Azerbaijan has narrowed down its gas export routes to ­Europe to Nabucco West and the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), planning to choose one of the two by mid-2013.

By selecting the revised ­Nabucco ­West proposal to pit against the TAP route in the south, the consortium dropped its own South East Europe Pipeline (SEEP) proposal of last year.

“This decision was made on the basis of the… selection criteria ­announced in 2011,” BP said.

“In particular, the greater maturity of Nabucco West gave the consortium confidence that this project could be developed and ­delivered on the same timeline as Shah Deniz stage two.”

Nabucco West — reduced to 1300 kilometres from the original plan for 3300 kilometres — will run from the…

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