Reuters: BP says original Nabucco pipeline plan off table

Oil major BP said it was no longer considering shipping gas from its Shah Deniz Stage 2 Gas field in Azerbaijan through the Nabucco pipeline, forcing the EU-backed project to offer a smaller alternative.

Iain Conn, BP's head of fuel refining and marketing said in a speech on Thursday that BP and Azeri state oil group Socar were now considering only two options for their gas - a smaller, pipeline from the Nabucco consortium, known as 'Nabucco West", and the South East Europe Pipeline (SEEP).