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(reuters) --
Austria's energy company OMV AG expects the consortium in charge of the Shah
Deniz II gas field in Azerbaijan to decide definitively on a pipeline partner by
mid-2013 to transport its gas to Europe, OMV's Chief Executive said on
Wednesday.
BP operates the Shah Deniz II gas field, containing some 1.2 trillion cubic
metres of gas, and holds a 25.5 percent stake, as does Statoil, with the rest
divided between SOCAR, LUKOIL, NICO, Total and TPAO.
"It appears the pipeline decision will be made in the middle of 2013,"
Gerhard Roiss told a news conference in Vienna.
But Roiss added that the timing of a decision was up to Shah Deniz, and not
the pipeline projects competing to transport its gas.
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