Ukraine, Georgia and EU to construct gas pipeline to supply Caspian
gas in European countries

Regnum, Russia
March 17 2006

Ukraine, Georgia and EU plan to construct a gas pipeline to supply
Caspian gas into European countries, informed a source in the Georgian
embassy, quoting the statements, made on 5th international conference
“Oil, gas, power engineering and infrastructure – GIOGIE-2006”,
which opened in Tbilisi on March 16.

According to the source, a specially created international consortium
of five companies already started its work on the project. Length of
gas pipeline will be around 1,000 km. Part of the pipeline between
Georgia and Ukraine will be constructed and the sea floor. Source
informed that in the near future, work on technical basis of the
project will start.

Earlier, National stock company Naftogaz Ukraine declared its
intention to participate in constructions of transit gas pipeline
from Iran to Western Europe. It proposed the Iranian side two
possible routes of the Iran-Armenia-Georgia-Russia-Ukraine-Europe
and Iran-Armenia-Georgia-Black Sea-Ukraine-Europe pipelines. Naftogaz
Ukraine proposed Iran to begin the realization of one of project in
bilateral format, with further joining of other countries, informs
finance.ua.