Turkey keeps working for development of Nabucco, energy minister says

TBILISI (A.A) - Turkish energy minister, who is currently visiting Georgia, said on Friday that they kept working for development of Nabucco project. Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz and Georgian Energy Minister Alexander Khetaguri held a press conference after a meeting titled "Turkey-Georgia Energy and Investment Arena" in Tbilisi. Yildiz said Turkey was one of six partners of Nabucco pipeline project and they were working to develop the project. Yildiz said that however EU member states should also exert efforts for solution of problems regarding the security of natural gas supply. Turkey has done its part even more in regard to the matter, he said. Touching on cooperation in the area of energy between Turkey and Georgia, Yildiz said that there would be several projects that would be developed by Turkey and Georgia in the coming period. The two countries should increase their energy investments, he said. Preparations for the Nabucco project started in 2002 and the intergovernmental agreement between Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Austria was signed on July 13, 2009. The project is developed by the consortium of six companies. The pipeline will link the Eastern border of Turkey, to Baumgarten in Austria - one of the most important gas turntables in Central Europe - via Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary.