CEYHAN - Turkish Energy & Natural Resources Minister Hilmi Guler said on Saturday that Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan Crude Oil Pipeline earned Turkey 2 billion USD.
"Now, the next projects are Samsun-Ceyhan and Nabucco pipelines," Guler told reporters in Ceyhan, Turkey`s energy hub.
Guler said 378 million barrels of Azerbaijani oil was sent to global markets so far.
"We are proud to realize a project which was seen as a dream. Now, the next projects are Samsun-Ceyhan and Nabucco pipelines. We had talks with Austrian President two days ago. Next month, we will make clear several matters, such as the amount and the rates (regarding Nabucco project)," he said.
The Nabucco project is a planned 3,300 kilometres natural gas pipeline that will carry gas from Turkey to Austria, via Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary.
The Nabucco pipeline will run from Erzurum in Turkey to Baumgarten an der March, a major natural gas hub in Austria. This pipeline is an alternative to the current projects developed to import natural gas from Russia. It will be connected with the Tabriz-Erzurum pipeline, and with the South Caucasus Pipeline, linking Nabucco Pipeline with the planned Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline.
The project is developed by the Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH, established in 2004 in Vienna. The shareholders of the company are OMV (Austria), MOL (Hungary), Transgaz (Romania), Bulgargaz (Bulgaria), BOTAS (Turkey) and RWE (Germany).
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