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    GAZPROM WARNS TURKEY OVER AZERI GAS PIPELINE DEAL

    Reuters
    Thu, Jun 28 2012

    MOSCOW, June 29 (Reuters) - Gazprom on Friday sent a warning signal
    to its second-largest gas consumer Turkey over Ankara's agreement
    with neighbouring Azerbaijan to built a gas pipeline to Europe,
    a rival to Moscow-backed planned South Stream trunk.

    Gazprom is anxiously watching the latest developments in Azerbaijan,
    whose gas fields are the most developed new non-Russian sources of
    natural gas that can be pumped to the European Union through pipelines.

    Moscow is keen on keeping Azerbaijan, its former Soviet satellite,
    within the orbit of influence and is trying to secure access to
    the country's vast gas riches, a bone of contention between Europe
    and Russia.

    On Tuesday, Turkey and Azerbaijan signed an inter-governmental
    agreement on the $7-billion Trans-Anatolian natural gas pipeline
    project (TANAP), designed to carry Azeri natural gas across Turkey
    to Europe.

    Gazprom also said it increased gas supplies to Turkey after it
    requested more volumes of Russian gas following a pipeline explosion,
    which hampered gas flow from Iran to Turkey.

    But Gazprom's spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said if the Trans-Anatolian
    project is "completed as planned in 2018, Turkey could then apply
    for help to Baku," according to Gazprom's emailed statement.

    In another development, which undermines Russian grip on the former
    Soviet Republic, Azeri's Shah Deniz II consortium, led by BP Plc and
    Statoil, on Thursday selected the Nabucco West pipeline for one of
    two possible routes to carry Caspian gas to western Europe.

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