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Titolo: L'europa brucia Gazprom in Nigeria

Altri contraccolpi della guerra georgiana (lo dice il commisario UE 
dell'energia, eh).
L'Europa attiva un'altra linea di rifornimento extra-russa: il gasdotto 
trans-sahariano verso la Nigeria.
E lo fa battendo d'anticipo Gazprom, che stava cercando di mettere le 
mani sulle riserve nigeriane, in un tentativo di rafforzare il suo 
controllo energetico sull'Europa (lo dice il FT, eh).
Tb
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Brussels takes on Gazprom in Nigeria
By Matthew Green in Abuja
Published: September 17 2008 00:09 | Last updated: September 17 2008 00:09
The European Union, increasingly anxious to reduce its dependence on 
Russian gas following the conflict in Georgia, has offered Nigeria 
financial and political backing for a €15bn ($21bn, £12bn) trans-Saharan 
pipeline to pump its gas directly to Europe.
Renewed European interest in the project comes against a backdrop of 
mounting fears that Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly, is intent on 
winning access to Nigeria’s vast gas reserves as part of a strategy to 
tighten its grip on energy supplies to Europe.
Gazprom, which has also offered to back the planned 4,300km pipeline, 
appeared to steal a march on its European rivals this month when it 
signed a memorandum of understanding with the state-owned Nigerian 
National Petroleum Corporation in Moscow to co-operate on gas 
exploration, production and transportation.
Andris Piebalgs, the EU energy commissioner, who visited Nigeria last 
week, admitted that European governments had been slow to back the 
trans-Saharan pipeline in the past but said the Georgia conflict had 
focused minds.
“In the EU, particularly after Georgia, there is also a lot of demand 
from member states to have diversification, real diversification, of 
supply,” Mr Piebalgs told the FT after meeting senior Nigerian energy 
officials in Abuja, the capital. “EU governments definitely are worried 
about having too strong a dependency on Russia.”
Russia, which already supplies a quarter of the gas consumed in the EU, 
has sought to increase its control by seeking deals with producers such 
as Nigeria and Libya, and backing moves to form an Opec-style gas cartel.
Russia’s conflict with Georgia, in which it reasserted its influence 
over energy supply routes through the southern Caucasus, has raised 
questions over the EU’s plans for the proposed 3,300km Nabucco gas 
pipeline from central Asia.
Mr Piebalgs said the EU was increasingly keen to promote the 
trans-Saharan project as an additional option, perhaps by helping to 
fund feasibility studies and playing a co-ordinating role between host 
countries Nigeria, Niger and Algeria. The European Investment Bank could 
help finance the project, he said.
“We need to follow where the Nigerian government is leading us, and the 
Nigerian government is very clearly leading towards a pipeline,” Mr 
Piebalgs said. “That means we should be more engaged in the 
trans-Saharan gas pipeline.”
Mr Piebalgs played down fears that Gazprom would gain a dominant 
position in Nigeria, saying that much of the country’s gas reserves were 
already under the control of joint ventures between western majors and 
the NNPC. “We should not be paranoid about it,” he said.
EU officials say the pipeline could supply 20bn cubic metres a year of 
gas to Europe by 2016. The bloc consumes some 300bn cubic metres a year 
but demand is projected to double by 2030, prompting a search for new 
sources from the Caspian Basin to Iraq and Qatar as domestic production 
declines.
Sonatrach, the Algerian state oil company, backs the trans-Saharan 
pipeline scheme but a consortium to finance and build it has yet to emerge.

 exploration, production and transportation.
qui abbiamo i fatti. Ovviamente i fatti sono russi e le parole
europee. CVD, il nazimagiaro si è incaprettato ancora

 Certo c'e' la disponibilita' della Sonatrach
qualcuno ti ha informato che i perfidi imperialisti Gazprom sono culo
e camicia con Sonatrach?
http://www.repubblica.it/2006/08/sezioni/economia/gas/gas/gas.html
Se la fanno loro, la pipeline si inabissa ad Algeri e riemerge nel Mar
Nero russo...:D

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 Tb
ecco come i tasselli del puzzle tornano al loro posto... ;-)