Gas transportation via Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline increases by 20%

In January-September 2022, Azerbaijan's main gas pipelines pumped 28,506,100,000 cubic meters of gas, 12.1% more than the previous year, Report informs, citing the State Statistics Committee.

Of the total volume of gas pumped through the main gas pipelines, 53.3% or 15,203,300,000 cubic meters were exported via the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline (South Caucasus Pipeline), up 19.6% from a year earlier.

The South Caucasus Pipeline supplies gas from the Shah Deniz gas condensate field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea to Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkiye. The South Caucasus Pipeline was commissioned in late 2006 and began transporting gas produced under the first phase of the Shah Deniz field. In the summer of 2018, the gas produced under the second phase of the Shah Deniz field will be delivered to Turkiye via the expanded South Caucasus Pipeline - TANAP.