Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 41

11-Oct-2010

CASPIAN

Turkey Cautious On Nabuccos Prospects, Yildiz Sees Need For Iranian Participation

Turkeys Minister of Energy Taner Yildiz on 30 September told a conference in Istanbul that Ankara is growing wary of Nabuccos feasibility, citing a lack of sufficient gas resources to sustain a 31 bcm/year pipeline and the overall slow progress of the project. The previous day Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the conference that...