US calls for output from deeper layers of Azeri gas fields
The United States has requested that the Azerbaijani government
launch gas production from deeper layers of available fields, a
senior US official says.
The US Department of State Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Coordinator, Steven Mann, said Washington was looking to increase output during Phase 2 of developing the gas-condensate field Shahdaniz in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea, in an effort to eliminate European reliance on Russian supplies.
The State Department official said the feasibility of the West-backed NABUCCO pipeline project - a route that will take Caspian gas to European markets by-passing Russia - is being studied and members of a relevant consortium clarified, while no such work is under way on the rival South Stream project backed by Moscow.
Mann said the U.S. actually had no intention to use gas produced in the Caspian region. By supporting regional projects, he said, Washington chiefly aims to do away with the dependence of its European partners on the supplies of Russian energy giants Gazprom and Transneft.
The US Department of State Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Coordinator, Steven Mann, said Washington was looking to increase output during Phase 2 of developing the gas-condensate field Shahdaniz in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea, in an effort to eliminate European reliance on Russian supplies.
The State Department official said the feasibility of the West-backed NABUCCO pipeline project - a route that will take Caspian gas to European markets by-passing Russia - is being studied and members of a relevant consortium clarified, while no such work is under way on the rival South Stream project backed by Moscow.
Mann said the U.S. actually had no intention to use gas produced in the Caspian region. By supporting regional projects, he said, Washington chiefly aims to do away with the dependence of its European partners on the supplies of Russian energy giants Gazprom and Transneft.
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