OMV calls for South Stream through Austria
News agencies
Austrian operator OMV said it hoped the Kremlin-backed South Stream gas
pipeline project - which will deliver Russian gas to Italy via the Black
Sea - would run through its Baumgarten hub in Austria.
"We want to strengthen Baumgarten further," OMV boss Wolfgang
Ruttenstorfer said at a joint news conference with Gazprom deputy chairman
Alexander Medvedev, according to Reuters
"We are very interested that part of the South Stream gas will be pumped
through Baumgarten."
Russian newspaper Kommersant reported on Monday that Russia's South Stream
pipeline could run via Slovenia instead of Austria to northern Italy,
following Gazprom head Alexei Miller’s visit to Ljubljana, Reuters said.
The pipeline, which will be jointly built by Gazprom and Italy's Eni, will
eventually carry 30 billion cubic metres of Russian gas per year under the
Black Sea to southern Europe.
17 April 2008 14:52 GMT
| last updated:
17 April 2008 15:32 GMT
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