Nabucco and South Stream participants don’t discuss uniting the pipelines

Participants of Nabucco and South Stream projects don't negotiate on joining the sectors of the two pipelines, said Werner Oli, representative of OMV oil and gas group from Austria.

Last week Paolo Scaroni, the head of Eni [Italia; partner of Russian Gazprom in South Stream project] voiced the initiative to join some sections of the two gas pipelines. In his view, it can cut the operation expenses and increase efficiency.

The consortium on construction of Nabucco includes OMV, MOL [Hungary], Botas [Turkey], Bulgarian Energy Holding [Bulgaria], RWE [Germany] and Transgaz [Romania]. Each participant owns a 16.67 per cent share.

Commenting Scaroni's initiative, Sergey Shmatko, the Russian Minister of Energy, said the Russia doesn't consider uniting sections of gas pipelines.

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