Turkmenistan has agreed to sell Bulgaria 2 billion cubic meters of gas, said Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov. He did not name date and price, but referred the draft Nabucco, which the EU sees as a future alternative to Gazprom.The only way to deliver Turkmen gas to Europe are Russian pipelines leading through Ukraine. I am happy willingness expressed by you in response to our desire for opportunities to purchase 2 billion cubic meters of natural gas using the existing gas pipeline network to the inception of Nabucco , – said today Parvanov after talks with his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov, reports Reuters. Nabucco – yet untapped gas pipeline project to transport Caspian gas to European consumers, depending on the import of fuel from Russia. The head of Bulgaria, which entered the EU in 2007, the first time on a visit to Turkmenistan – the largest exporter of natural gas in Central Asia. The main flow of supplies goes through neighboring Russia, which then resells gas to Europe.
