- Gazprom (OGZPY) wants to push ahead with plans to build a €16B ($22B) pipeline to send gas from Russia across the Black Sea and into Italy - bypassing Ukraine, through which ~50% of Europe-bound Russian gas flows - but in the wake of Russia's annexation of Crimea, the fate of the project is now in limbo.
- Absent from today's talks between Gazprom and EU bureaucrats were executives from Gazprom's partners - Italy's Eni (E), Electricité de France (ECIFF) and Germany's Wintershall.
- Despite the uncertainty, Gazprom, which holds a 50% stake in the project, is pressing ahead with construction, laying pipes in Russia, Bulgaria and Serbia in the hope that the pipeline will be operational by 2015.http://seekingalpha.com/news/1664973-gazprom-pushes-ahead-with-new-pipeline-despite-ukraine-standoff?isDirectRoadblock=false
Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire - Major Energy and Environmental News and Commentary affecting the Nuclear Industry. Nuclear Activities
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Gazprom pushes ahead with new pipeline, despite Ukraine standoff
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