In a speech on Thursday, BP chief executive of refining and marketing Iain Conn said the Shah Deniz partners were now considering only two options for the shipping of their gas to mainland Europe.
One of the two was a smaller, pipeline from the Nabucco consortium, known as 'Nabucco West", a 1300 kilometre pipeline from the Bulgarian-Turkish border to Baumgarten in Austria – nearly two-thirds shorter than the original length.
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