Oettinger says Nabucco may be delayed
Thursday, April 1, 2010
The completion of the Nabucco gas pipeline may be delayed by four years to 2018, the European Union Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said in an interview published in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung on last Thursday (25 March). "I hope we will take the final decision in 2010 to build the pipeline," he said, adding gas flows "it will probably be (in) 2018". The EU-backed 3,300 kilometre pipeline, which could cost 7.9 billion euros ($10.6 billion), is designed to bring gas from ...