LONDON, June 28 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's state-owned energycompany SOCAR said on Friday that it sees a gas pipeline routeto Austria as a "natural market" for gas from a number of Azerifields.
It said that its gas exports will increase dramaticallyafter the development of fields such as ACG Deep, Absheron, Umidand Shafag-Asiman.
"We see the pipeline route towards Austria as a naturalmarket for this gas," SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev said ina statement.
The Nabucco West pipeline, which was due to pump Azeri gasto Austria, on Friday lost its bid to transport Azeri gas fromthe Shah Deniz II field.