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    Trend: Nabucco new concept may have better chance for success

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As soon as Azerbaijan and Turkey announced the idea of building their own pipeline across Turkey, it became clear that the full Nabucco project was unlikely to be built

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Trend: Nabucco new concept may have better chance for success

New concept of Nabucco project envisaging a shorter route and a smaller capacity as compared to original pipeline version may have better chances for implementation, Julian Lee, energy analyst at London-based Centre for Global Energy Studies (CGES), believes.

"I think for the Nabucco partners the only way forward for their project was to propose a shorter alternative to transport gas from Turkey's western border to Austria," Lee wrote Trend in an e-mail.   MORE