Iraq gears up to supply Europe’s gas
February 5, 2010 by supermario
Filed under World News
upi.com
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Iraq looks set to play a key role in the Nabucco pipeline project that will carry natural gas 2,000 miles from the Caspian Sea basin through Turkey to Austria to feed energy-hungry Europe and break Russia’s stranglehold.
Expansionist Turkey, in a move that signals a new effort to make peace with its Kurdish separatists, has already signed up Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish enclave to provide 8 billion cubic meters a year for transit.
There are several important political issues between Iraq’s central government in Baghdad and the government of the Kurdish enclave that have yet to be settled, but for now the focus seems to be on getting the gas flowing and earning badly needed revenue.
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