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Nabucco Gas Pipeline Project Moving Forward
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From left to right: Deputy Chief of Mission Jeffrey Levine, Turkish Ambassador Oya Tuzcuoglu, MOL CEO Zsolt Hernádi, Ambassador Foley, Hungarian Ambassador-at-Large for Nabucco Mihály Bayer, Bulgarian Deputy Chief of Mission Mirella Ivanova, and Azeri Ambassador Hasan Aziz Hasanov full size photo |
On May 9, 2008, Ambassador Foley hosted counterparts from other Embassies, Hungarian government officials, and energy industry leaders at a luncheon to discuss the Nabucco Gas Pipeline Project.
Mihály Bayer (pictured), Hungarian Ambassador-at-Large for Nabucco, assumed his new duties in April and aims to catalyze the Nabucco process. One of Bayer’s first goals, he said, is to complete an intergovernmental agreement with intended transit countries – Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria – to show their strong commitment to Nabucco, an EU priority project. Hungarian oil and gas company MOL (CEO Hernádi pictured) is an original member of the six-party Nabucco Consortium, which also includes OMV (Austria), Transgaz (Romania), Bulgargaz (Bulgaria), BOTAS (Turkey) and RWE (Germany).