About 130 ancient sites revealed thanks to Nabucco

Bulgarian archaeologists surveying the route of Nabucco gas pipeline uncovered about 130 archaeological sites, Novinite Sofia News Agency reported with the reference to Bulgaria's National Archaeological Institute.

Nabucco gas pipeline is one of the Southern Gas Corridor projects, which is designed to transport gas from the Caspian region and Middle East to the European countries.

According to the Bulgarian Institute's Director Lyudmil Vagalinski, the surveying of the 420 km Bulgarian section of Nabucco has been carried out under a special GIS (Geographical Information System) technology.

He said that based on the data collected by the archaeologists, there will be excavations along the route of the Nabucco pipeline.

Vagalinski, however, stressed that the archaeologists have no way of influencing the investor's decisions other than by indicating their findings.

Nabucco gas pipeline will be laid from the Georgian-Turkish and Iraqi-Turkish borders to the Austrian Baumgarten. It will run through Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria over a distance of 3,900 kilometres.

The construction of Nabucco pipeline with maximum capacity of 31 billion cubic meters is planned to start in 2013 and its first supplies are scheduled for 2017. Gas produced during the second stage of Azerbaijani Shah Deniz gas condensate field development is to be the main source for the Nabucco project.

/Trend/