"South Stream deadline put back to 2015"

Russian daily Kommersant says that the deadline for opening the South Stream gas pipeline has been pushed back from 2013 to 2015. Last week, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller met in Moscow with officials of the Romanian companies Transgas and Romagas. "South Stream deadline put back to 2015" The daily’s sources claim that he met to discuss Bucharest’s involvement in South Stream and the possibility of Romania replacing Bulgaria in the project. Gazprom wants to change the route of the planned gas pipeline, which means that serious problems in the implementation of the project have surfaced, the daily states. After the war in Georgia, the European Union decided to invest maximum efforts to bring the Nabuko project off. That project would see energy resources from the Caspian Seam being delivered to Europe, bypassing Russia. Miller met with Romanian ambassador to Moscow Constantin Girbea on Friday, as well as senior Transgas and Romagas officials to discuss the delivery of gas to Romania until 2030.

"South Stream deadline put back to 2015"

The daily’s sources claim that he met to discuss Bucharest’s involvement in South Stream and the possibility of Romania replacing Bulgaria in the project.

Gazprom wants to change the route of the planned gas pipeline, which means that serious problems in the implementation of the project have surfaced, the daily states.

After the war in Georgia, the European Union decided to invest maximum efforts to bring the Nabuko project off. That project would see energy resources from the Caspian Seam being delivered to Europe, bypassing Russia.

Miller met with Romanian ambassador to Moscow Constantin Girbea on Friday, as well as senior Transgas and Romagas officials to discuss the delivery of gas to Romania until 2030.