Gazprom spokesman says company is primarily studying Turkey route for South Stream - a route which avoids Romania
Thursday, September 3, 2009
"The [South Stream] pipeline will either cross the exclusive economic zone of Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria, or Russia, Turkey and Bulgaria. But prior and large-scale research must be done before one of them is chosen. Since the recent verbal agreements with Turkey, we have been studying primarily the possibility of laying this gas pipeline through the Turkish economic zone of the Black Sea", Gazprom official spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said in an interview with ...