KIEV, November 25 (RIA Novosti) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has issued instructions for the drafting of a project to prospect for gas off the country's Black Sea coast.
"I would like us to start implementing a large-scale project, including the entire shelf, and including all the components of prospecting and production, and I ask you to launch this as a separate state program," the government press service quoted Tymoshenko as saying.
Dirtyboots,
It sure looks like, that the issue of future energy supply is number one priority for most of the European nations. The Nabucco project still alive and well, according to this bit of news.
John
http://bbjonline.hu/index.php?col=0&...
Nabucco project agreement could be signed in H1 of 2009
Thursday 7:51, November 27th, 2008
An inter-governmental agreement in support of the Nabucco pipeline project could be signed in Ankara, Turkey, during the first half of 2009, Bulgaria's Nabucco pipeline envoy Dimiter Ikonomov said at an ad hoc Hungarian parliamentary-committee meeting.
Hungary's envoy for the pipeline project, Mihály Bayer, told the ad hoc parliamentary committee that the a draft of the inter-governmental agreement stipulating the operational and legal conditions surrounding the pipeline could be completed at any time.
Bayer added that the global financial and economic crisis has not yet had an impact on the project.
Bayer told the ad hoc committee that the issue of when the inter-governmental agreement will be signed depends largely on Turkey. Bayer noted that Turkish representatives taking part in an energy summit in Baku, Azerbaijan in the middle of November had indicated that the Turkish government has the political will to complete the pipeline.
Bayer said that Hungary's government is likely to declare construction of the Nabucco pipeline to be a cardinal project after the signing of the inter-governmental agreement, thus exempting it from the prescribed 18-month assessment period. (MTI – Econews)
