Kazakhstan’s consent of the agreement could divert potential supplies away from Europe’s Nabucco project, analysts said.
During a summit in Prague last week, Kazakhstan officials, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan refused to sign a final declaration to accelerate work on the European Union-backed Nabucco project to bring Caspian gas to Europe.
The Russian pipeline plan is anticipated to supply up to an extra 10 billion cubic meters of Turkmen gas annually and the same volume of additional Kazakh supplies.
