Pipeliners

May 14 2009 - The Financial Times by Isabel Gorst - Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, has signed a law approving the construction of an additional gas pipeline to Russia that will bolster Gazprom's control over central Asian gas exports. The 1,600km pipeline will carry 20bn cubic metres of gas from Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan north to Russia. The European Union has urged the two countries to join the planned Nabucco pipeline project to bring gas to the west without crossing Russia, but the countries have refused to commit to it.