UPI: Nabucco is over, analyst says

The original plans for the Nabucco natural gas pipeline are likely outdated since Turkey has plans for an alternative route, an analyst said.

Nabucco is the most ambitious of the three natural gas pipelines outlined in the so-called Southern Corridor, a network of gas transit routes meant to break Russia's grip on the European natural gas sector.

Julian Lee, an analyst at the Center for Global Energy Studies, told online news service New Europe that Turkey's plans to move ahead with the alternate Trans-Anatolia gas pipeline through its territory likely spelled the end of Nabucco.  MORE