Iraq Could Become the First Country to Supply Gas for the Nabucco Project

摘要

Is Iraq in pole position for supplying natural gas to the future Nabucco gasline ? This may seem a curious question, since it was generally acknowledged up to now that the gas to be transported through this gasline would come from the Caspian Sea region to start with and only secondarily from the Middle East. Yet a senior executive of Nabucco Gas Pipeline International has just referred to this possibility, indicating that he expected the first gas supplies to come from Iraq. In his view, this country is less dependent on Russia than