RWE Says Nabucco Can Avoid Turkmen Gas on Azeri, Iraqi Supplies

RWE AG, the German utility planning the Nabucco natural-gas pipeline to Europe to help cut reliance on Russia, said the venture may not need fuel from Turkmenistan.

Nabucco is in negotiations to source gas from northern Iraq and Azerbaijan, and “if those materialize there will be no room for Turkmen gas anymore in Nabucco phase 1, the 31 billion cubic meter capacity pipeline,” Stefan Judisch, head of RWE’s supply and trading unit, said in a phone interview today. “The supply picture becomes slowly but surely clearer.”