Baku, Azerbaijan, June 3
By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:
TANAP is an important and strategic project, Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on the eve of his visit to Baku June 3.
He noted that TANAP is important not only for Turkey, but for the whole region, the TRT Haber news channel reported June 3.
"Turkey considers Azerbaijan's success in politics and economy as its own success," said Yildirim.
TANAP project envisages transportation of gas of Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz field from Georgian-Turkish border to the western borders of Turkey.
The initial capacity of TANAP pipeline is expected to reach 16 billion cubic meters of gas per year. Around six billion cubic meters of this gas will be delivered to Turkey and the remaining volume will be supplied to Europe.
Turkey will get gas in 2018 and after completing the construction of Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), it will be delivered to Europe in early 2020.
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