Consortium of the project reviewed capital expenditures on the basis of assessment of material procurement and supplies for implementation of the gas pipeline construction project. According to new assessment, the project will require 2mln tons of steel, 200,000 pipes and over 30 compressor aggregates.
Nabucco gas pipeline will pump gas from Azerbaijan and Central Asia to EU countries. From Central Asia gas may be delivered to Nabucco via planned Trans-Caspian gas pipeline to be constructed along the bed of the Caspian Sea. The pipeline with initial carrying capacity of 8bln cu m per year will be constructed by 2012. First supplies will be pumped in 2013.