28 September: BP is proposing to build a 1300 km pipeline to transport gas from Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz field in the Caspian, as an alternative to Nabucco, the Trans Adriatic Pipeline and the Interconnector Turkey-Greece-Italy scheme. A spokesperson

Speaking to the Hürriyet Daily News on Tuesday, Murat LeCompte, press spokesman for BP Turkey, recalled that companies within these three projects will present their tariff offers to the Shah Deniz consortium on Saturday, regarding the extraction and transfer of Shah Deniz gas. The consortium consists of nine companies, with BP and Statoil as the biggest shareholders. Turkey’s state oil company TPAO has a 10 percent stake in the consortium.

The consortium has to decide on which route to take by the end of the year.

BP’s offer “is a fourth, stand-alone project, an idea,” LeCompte said. “The idea is that the gas pipeline [starting from the Caspian] and going through Turkey will be constructed, and every country will take the gas by using its own network.”

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