Nabucco gas pipeline project can dovetail seamlessly with the planned Azerbaijani-Turkish Trans-Anatolia project (TANAP) at the Turkish-Bulgarian border, Senior Fellow of Jamestown Foundation (Washington), Trend Expert Council Vladimir Socor believes.
According to Socor, as distinct advantages, Nabucco-West, which is which is the short version of the Nabucco project, and envisages the construction of the pipeline from the Turkish-Bulgarian border to the Austrian Baumgarten, inherits the inter-governmental agreements, project support agreements, and uniform European legal-regulatory regime, already established with the earlier configuration of the project.
Nabucco gas pipeline is one of the Southern Gas Corridor projects, whiuch is designed to transport gas from the Caspian region and Middle East to the European countries.