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Kazakhstan eager to feed Nabucco gas pipeline, official says
PRAGUE, Oct 23, 2008 (AFP) - Kazakhstan will be glad to supply
gas to the Nabucco pipeline, an EU-backed project designed to reduce
Europe's dependence on Russian gas resources, a Kazakh official said
Thursday in Prague.
"We can see no political impediments that would limit us," Askar
Batalov, executive secretary of the Kazakh ministry of industry and
trade, told a conference on energy in Prague.
The 7.9-billion-euro Nabucco is scheduled to bring gas from
Central Asia to Europe while bypassing Russia from 2013.
Kazakhstan, a gas-rich former Soviet republic, coordinates its
supplies to Europe with Russia, its key partner, Batalov said but
added: "I'd like to underline that we have no issues with Russia."
Russia backs a rival pipeline, South Stream, being built by
Gazprom and ENI of Italy. That project entails a gas pipeline under
the Black Sea from Russia to Bulgaria and then branches to Austria
and Italy.
Nabucco would run 3,300 kilometres (2,050 miles) from the
Turkish borders with Georgia and Iran to Austria via Romania,
Bulgaria and Hungary. The first construction phase is scheduled to
begin in 2010.
Batalov said gas transit across the Caspian Sea might be a
problem because of legal and environmental issues that hamper the
construction of an underwater pipeline.
"If we are to do that, we will come across unprecedented
challenges," he said.
"In the Caspian Sea, we can only use lower-tonnage tankers now,"
Batalov said but added Kazakhstan did not have to observe any
traffic density limits.
Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan are the other Caspian
countries that may also pump gas into the Nabucco pipeline.
But Kazakhstan has a lot to offer with facilities such as
Karachaganak, which produced 14.2 billion cubic metres of gas in
2007, up from 11.9 billion a year earlier.
"We are the largest landlocked country in the world, and we have
to place the gas somewhere. When there's an opportunity, we will no
doubt be there," said Batalov.
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AFP
232220 GMT OCT 08
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