[1] On 28 January 2008, Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko asked the European Union to consider participating in White Stream project.
[4] The company developing the White Stream project had received co-funding for studies under EU's TEN-E programme.
The option was laid out by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev along with previously considered onshore routes through Russia and Iran during his recent special session on gas issues.
It was also to supply a proposed onshore gas pipeline running parallel to the planned Pan-European Oil Pipeline, expected to run directly across the Balkan peninsula to Trieste in north-east Italy or possibly to the Baumgarten gas hub in Austria.
[8] At the first stage the initial capacity of pipeline was to be 8 billion cubic metres (280×10^9 cu ft) of natural gas per year.
At this stage the pipeline would be supplied from the Shah Deniz gas field from the Azerbaijan's Caspian offshore sector.
[7] White Stream would consist of a number of legs with capacity of 8–9 billion cubic metres (280×10^9–320×10^9 cu ft) of each.