Azerbaijan, Baku, June 2 / Trend /
The Southern gas Corridor should begin via the ITGI (Interconnection Turkey-Greece-Italy) pipeline, Greece's Environment Minister Tina Birbili said in a meeting with a high-ranking BP executive, the Athens News reported.
Birbili said that other pipelines could be added when additional quantities of natural gas were available.
Birbili and Deputy Environment Minister Yiannis Maniatis supported this position during their meeting with Alasdair Cook, BP Vice President for the Shah Deniz II Development in Azerbaijan.
Gas reserves of the Shah Deniz gas condensate field are estimated at 1.2 billion cubic meters. According to forecasts, within the second phase of the field's development gas production here may be increased to 24 billion cubic meters per year.
ITGI includes updated Turkish pipeline infrastructure and also ITG (Interconnector Turkey-Greece) and IGI (Greece-Italy) projects.
IGI Poseidon SA was created by the Italian company Edison and Greek company Depa for the design and construction of the pipeline Greece-Italy, known as Poseidon.