Natural gas pipeline to link West Asia, Europe

Energy company leaders from five Asian and European countries have decided to jointly set up a firm to lay a pipeline for transporting natural gas from West Asia to Europe, Bulgaria’s newspaper the Monitor reported Friday.

Oil and natural gas company leaders from Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria have recently held a meeting in Bulgaria’s seaside city of Varna, where they agreed to establish afirm in September for the construction of the pipeline, the report said.