Azerbaijan has supplied more than 54 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Europe via the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) to date.
Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov shared this information on his “X” social media account.
“It has been 5 years since the start of exports of Azerbaijani gas to Europe via TAP. During this period, more than 54 billion cubic meters of gas have been delivered to Europe through the pipeline. In the current year, according to operational data, 12.8 billion cubic meters of gas have been exported to Europe under short- and long-term contracts,” the minister stated.
It should be recalled that TAP, the European segment of the Southern Gas Corridor, currently has an annual transmission capacity of 12 billion cubic meters. Based on the agreement between Azerbaijan and the European Union, Azerbaijani gas supplies to Europe must reach at least 20 billion cubic meters per year by 2027. In the first phase of the pipeline's expansion, Italy will receive an additional 1 billion cubic meters, while Albania will receive 200 million cubic meters of Azerbaijani gas. Based on the results of market tests conducted in 2021, the TAP consortium has committed to increasing the pipeline's annual transmission capacity by an additional 1.2 billion cubic meters by January 1, 2026.
Construction of TAP was completed in October 2020. The total length of the pipeline is 878 km: 550 km through Greece, 215 km through Albania, 105 km under the Adriatic Sea, and 8 km through Italy.
Commercial supplies of Azerbaijani gas to Italy, Greece, and Bulgaria via TAP began on December 31, 2020.
It is worth noting that gas produced from the Shah Deniz field is transported to Türkiye via the South Caucasus Pipeline (Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum) and the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP). The first gas was delivered to Türkiye via the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline in 2007, while commercial gas supplies via TANAP began on June 30, 2018.
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