But while Nabucco could supply Europe with gas from Azerbaijan, it would not help Turkmenistan, which would also need a pipeline under the Caspian if it is to bypass Russia and Iran.

但是Nabucco可能从阿塞拜疆向欧洲提供天然气，这一点帮不上土库曼斯坦，如果想要绕开俄罗斯和伊朗，就需要从里海通过一条管线。

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Japan, with its own need for oil, has pressed a competing proposal for a pipeline that would bypass China.

日本，出于其自己对石油的需求，一再坚持其绕过中国的输油管线竞标方案。

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The planned South Stream pipeline will bypass Ukraine, through which 80% of Russia’s gas exports to Europe now flow.

目前，俄80%的输欧天然气要过境乌克兰。

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The Nabucco pipeline aims to bypass Russia and Ukraine, after natural gas price disputes between the two neighbors led to serious disruptions in supplies to the rest of Europe earlier this year.

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In December, a natural-gas pipeline to Iran was opened, the first Turkmen gas-export pipeline to bypass Russia.

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Still, Russia sees the EU as a competitor in its sphere of influence and reacts fiercely to any interference, such as Belarus being told that recognising South Ossetia and Abkhazia would hurt its prospects with the EU. That the summit was followed by a conference on Nabucco, a gas pipeline meant to bypass Russia in the south, was just another irritation.

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The Nabucco pipeline was supposed to bypass both Iran and Russia and increase instead gas exports from the former Soviet republics to Europe.

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