Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has proposed connecting the Turkish gas pipeline currently being developed by Russia and the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP), which will supply Azerbaijani gas to Europe in 2020, TRT Haber news channel reported.
Cavusoglu said that Ankara plans to buy only 16 billion cubic meters of Russian gas per year, supplied through the Turkish Stream. The remaining volume of Russian gas can be exported via Turkey via TANAP, connecting it to the Turkish Stream. “TANAP is a priority project for Turkey,” the minister said.
The TANAP project, worth $ 9.2 billion, involves the transportation of gas from the Shah Deniz field in Azerbaijan from the Georgian-Turkish border to the western borders of Turkey. Gas will be supplied to Turkey as early as 2018, and after the completion of the Trans-Adriatic Gas Pipeline (TAP), gas will be supplied to Europe in early 2020.
T TANAP's shareholders are Azerbaijan's state oil company SOCAR (58 percent), BOTAS (30 percent) and BP (12 percent).
Ankara proposes to connect Turkish Stream and TANAP
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Azovpromstal® 10 August 2016 г. 17:01 |
