TANAP, TAP transport 11 bcm of gas to Turkiye and Europe this year
- 05 September, 2022
- 07:47
Stay up to date with the top news!
This year, a total of 11 bcm of gas was transported to Turkiye and Europe through TANAP and TAP, Azerbaijan's Ener Minister Parviz Shahbazov wrote on Twitter, Report informs.
"5.4 bcm of gas was transported to Turkiye, of which 3.7 bcm was transmitted via TANAP. 7.3 bcm of Azerbaijani gas was exported to Europe," the minister tweeted.
Natural gas volumes are delivered to the Turkish market through the South Caucasus Pipeline (Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum) and TANAP. The first gas entered the Turkish market through the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline in 2007. Commercial gas transportation to Turkiye through TANAP started on June 30, 2018.
Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz gas is transported to Turkiye.
The construction of TAP was completed in October 2020. The total length of TAP is 878 km, of which 550 km passes through the northern part of Greece, 215 km through Albania, 105 km - along the bottom of the Adriatic Sea, and 8 km - through the territory of Italy.
The TAP AG consortium is considering three scenarios for increasing the pipeline's capacity: limited - up to 14.4 billion cubic meters, partial - up to 17.1 billion cubic meters, and complete - up to 20 billion cubic meters per year.
Azerbaijani gas supplies to consumers in Italy, Greece, and Bulgaria via TAP began on December 31, 2020.