The Nabucco pipeline

For my paper topic subject. I choose to write about the Nabucco pipeline because of it’s important to Europe. The mean reason for it is Europe want to diversifying the current natural gas suppliers and delivery routes for Europe. As we all know that Russia is the biggest gas supplier to Europe about more than of 40 percent of European natural gas consumption, comes form Russia. After the last problem between Russia and the Ukraine. It became very clear to Europe. That they are too much dependent on Russia. Therefore it is very important to diversify it’s gas supply.

To do that first, it needs to make another pipeline route to another world natural gas suppliers. Here it will comes clear the important of a project like the Nabucco pipelines to Europe. The Nabucco pipeline stretches from Erzurum in Turkey via Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary to Baumgarten an der March in Austria. It will cover a distance of over 3,300 kilometers long. And in turkey it will be connected with the Tabriz–Erzurum pipeline and with the South Caucasus Pipeline, connecting Nabucco Pipeline with the planned Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline. This pipelines will have to be laid 46 kilometers in Austria, 390 kilometers in Hungary, 460 kilometers in Romania, 400 kilometers in Bulgaria and 2,000 kilometers throw Turkey. It could be connected to other major pipelines with its suppliers.

In the nearby future there is a plan to connect the Nabucco pipeline with the Persian- Arab golf-region through Iraq into turkey. As we all know with the increase on energy demand these days, gas en oil is running out, with no good alternative. Then the countries, which are consider a major suppliers of gas en oil. They will be in a shortage to cover all the demand for oil. The scare of dramatic effect of the oil shortage. Push many countries in the world to fight and struggle to ensure their energy supply for the future. The present map of the biggest gas and oil (G&O) suppliers will change in the future. For example the biggest gas and oil supplier in the world like Saudi Arabia will run out of reserve oil and it will draw in the next decades. It is estimated that their oil and gas field will run out in year 2025, nearly the same applies for other bigger O&G suppliers like Russia, Iran and the gulf of Mexico. While the other O&G reserves are discovered in other part of the world like Iraq, Sudan, Algeria and black sea. Its estimated that a country like Iraq will produce at least about 6 million barrels and 18 million cubic meter of natural gas a year.