And Iran may supply gas to Nabucco

Signed in the Turkish capital Ankara political agreement on the pipeline Nabucco will ensure that the six countries – participating in the project, including Bulgaria, equal access to the tube. It said before Darik Dimitar Gogov, a member of the Board of Directors of the Bulgarian energy holding company, which is a shareholder in the Nabucco. In his words, countries involved in the project are discussed further participation of Iran as a source of natural gas for Nabucco. Agreement signed in Ankara representatives of the transit project in Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria. Shareholder is the sixth German company RWE, as Berlin has also declared its support, explained Gogov. „This is normal intergovernmental agreement, a legal framework for action in each country – equal tax treatment and equal conditions of access to the pipeline. And Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan, and Egypt as possible sources, including talking to Iran and Iraq and the normalization of the situation in the Middle East, „said Gogov. Each of these countries declared their readiness to cooperate and said vazhnostta start, he added. At a meeting in Ankara confirmed that half the capacity of the pipe will be reserved for shareholders, the remaining 50 percent of the amounts transferred will be offered for third party access. The agreement provides for the determination of a tariff model, explained by the Bulgarian Energy Holding. Conditions of the document will be valid for a period of 25 years after the start of the transmission of gas. It is expected to fuel the blue poteche in the tube in 2014.

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