Azerbaijan's Socar interested in buying stake in Greece's gas supplier Depa...

Azerbaijan's Socar interested in buying stake in Greece's gas supplier Depa...

Greek economy implodes as it begins to build pipeline from Caspian and this leads to privatization of Greek gas company assets. As with Ireland who just discovered massive oil fields, it's the same banks.....

http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/NaturalGas/6280982

Azerbaijan's Socar interested in buying into Greek Depa
London (Platts)--25Jul2011

Azerbaijan's state-owned Socar is interested in buying a stake in Greece's state natural gas supplier Depa when the latter is privatized later this year, Socar President Rovnag Abdullayev said Friday, with a deal likely to have implications for one of the three proposed gas pipeline projects to bring Caspian gas to Europe....

http://www.rferl.org/content/Central_Asian_Gas_An_Opportunity_Europe_Seems_Determined_To_Miss/1742586.html

Ties between Baku and Athens have strengthened this year after the two sides agreed that Azerbaijan would supply gas directly to Greece through Turkey's gas transportation network.

Previously, Greece bought up to 750 million cubic meters/year of Azeri gas that was re-exported to Greece by Turkey's Botas under an agreement signed in 2002.

Greece, as part of its efforts to raise funds for its struggling economy, has said it wants to sell off stakes in a number of state companies, including refiner Hellenic Petroleum and Depa.

..."If it is profitable both economically and commercially, we can take part in Depa's privatization," Abdullayev was quoted as saying by Azeri news agency news.az.

"Yesterday, I met the president of Depa where he said that the Greek company is open to privatization," Abdullayev said.

Under its privatization plan, approved last month by the Greek Parliament as a condition for receiving fresh financial bailouts from the EU and IMF, Athens committed to selling a 55% stake in Depa.

It also said it would sell the remaining 35.5% stake it owns in Hellenic Petroleum and a 31% share in the Greek gas transmission company DEFSA.

Depa is a shareholder in one of the pipeline projects to bring more Azeri gas to Europe through the so-called southern corridor, so having Socar as a major shareholder could be beneficial to that project.....

Schroeder says Nabucco needs Iran gas


Germany's ex-chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has called on the European countries to rely on Iran as a source of natural gas for the Nabucco pipeline.

http://cambridgeforecast.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/turkey-greece-italy-gas-pipeline/



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece%E2%80%93Italy_pipeline


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Adriatic_Pipeline