If South Stream is built first, it will pull all available Caspian gas supplies with it.
Guess what, South Stream was going to be another TPA addition to the European party.
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Recently, both the Trans Adriatic and South Stream pipelines have emerged as alternatives to expanding Algerian traffic.
Bulgaria is also involved in two rival gas pipeline projects: Russia's South Stream pipeline and the EU-backed Nabucco pipeline.
Moscow also tried to hire former Italian Premier Romano Prodi as chairman of a second gas pipeline, South Stream.
Mr. Putin came up with South Stream to keep Nabucco from being built.
The new Croatian prime minister, Jadranka Kosor, visited Moscow this week and signed up to receive gas from South Stream.
Thus, the argument that South Stream will benefit anyone besides Russia and its select contract holders becomes increasingly hard to make.
The construction of South Stream will ensure that Russia has a guaranteed vehicle for gas distribution without any sort of expiration date.
Russia also continues to push South Stream, a Russian-backed Black Sea pipeline.
Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, was present in Ankara because ENI, an Italian energy company, is involved in the South Stream deal.
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Both Nabucco West and the Trans-Adriatic Pipleine are predicated on exactly the same oil indexed price points at the competing Russian South Stream pipeline.
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As the competition between the Nabucco and South Stream projects perfectly exemplifies, Gazprom can literally play by a different set of rules than its opponents.
Russia always had first mover advantage in the Southern Corridor purely by virtue of being able to redirect initial supplies from Ukraine towards South Stream markets.
Another project which Mr Putin is determined should go ahead is Russia's South Stream gas pipeline, across the Black Sea and into the heart of the European Union.
The outgoing Italian prime minister and former European Commission president, Romano Prodi, also said he had turned down (for now, at least) a Russian offer to head the South Stream consortium.
When it comes to the most extreme weather on the continent, look north or south of the Gulf Stream, or within close proximity to Africa.
Along with street and building upgrades in the community, the city invested in rain gardens, reforestation, and restoration of Lick Run, a stream in South Fairmount that was buried as the area developed.
In addition to this, the company signed a deal with a South Korean entertainment company to stream 20 Asian movies.
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If the sinking motion at high latitudes were completely stopped, by covering that part of the ocean by sea ice for instance, there would still be a Gulf Stream to the south, and maybe an even more powerful one as the wind field would probably then become stronger.
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To the south, Mexico's raging drug war and stream of migrants make the prospect of relaxing controls there politically unthinkable.
The Oklahoma City area, including Moore, could continue to face storms during the morning due to a strong cold front positioned through the state and a strong low-level jet stream "plowing into it from the south, " Van Dillen said.
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"I thought it went into the water but when I went to look I saw it was just left of the stream and I had a shot, " said the South African.
While others in the fleet positioned themselves too far south or too far north, Toshiba caught the benefit of the Gulf Stream.
To reflect the concerns of South Korea among others, the IMF agreed to establish a new work stream on how advanced countries can exit from extraordinarily loose monetary policy.
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