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Nabucco Pipeline's Future
June 10, 2009
Mihály Bayer, the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Ambassador-at-Large for the Nabucco Gas Pipeline Project, spoke at an event hosted by the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Energy Center. He discussed the options facing the project following last month's Southern Corridor summit in Prague, including the possible June 25 signing of an agreement to realize Nabucco.
Eurasia Energy Center director Boyko Nitzov moderated the Q&A session. Ambassador Bayer's discussion was the second event in the recently launched Eurasia Energy Discussion Series.
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Appointed to his position in April 2008, Ambassador Bayer is the project’s point man in Central Europe and the Black Sea Region, tasked with bringing together public and private sector support for the pipeline. The Nabucco natural gas pipeline is slated to bring Caspian and potentially Iranian and Iraqi gas to EU markets through Turkey and Central Europe.
Successive U.S. administrations and key European decision-makers consider Nabucco the best hope for diversifying sources and routes for Europe’s energy supplies, making it a central piece of the Southern Corridor for energy and transport. That said, potentially competing pipelines, an uncertain investment framework and second-guessing from key transit countries could put Nabucco’s viability into question.
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New Atlanticist Analysis:
- Progress on East-West Energy Corridor Continues – Alexandros Petersen
- Misreading Turkey's Strategic Goals – James Joyner
- Pop Goes the Pipeline – Alexandros Petersen
- Nabucco: End of the Line? – Nikolas Gvosdev
- EU Needs a Political Deal with Turkey on Gas – Borut Grgic and Alexandros Petersen
- Europe Betrays Its Mission in Prague – Borut Grgic
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