Shah Deniz gas to be transported by Trans Adriatic Pipeline

The Nabucco project has failed to be chosen to transport Caspian gas to Europe

With the words "the Nabucco project is over for us", OMV chief executive Gerhard Roiss finally brought the curtain down on the increasingly unloved EU project to bring Caspian gas direct into the heart of Europe. Instead, the consortium developing Azerbaijan's giant Shah Deniz field chose the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) to transport 10 billion cubic metres of Azeribaijan's gas a year from the Turkish border to EU markets. The Shah Deniz II consortium, led by BP and Azerbaijan's Socar, announced the award in Baku on 28 June. The Austrian energy group OMV, which has been pushing for the Nabucco project for more than a decade, issued a statement two days earlier, acknowledging its proposal ha