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Minister: Turkey to buy share in TAP project

Oil&Gas Materials 2 September 2013 10:57 (UTC +04:00)
Turkey intends buying a share in the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project using state pipeline company Botas or another company, Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz said, Sabah newspaper reported on Monday.
Minister: Turkey to buy share in TAP project

Azerbaijan, Baku, September 2 /Trend A.Tagiyeva/

Turkey intends buying a share in the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project using state pipeline company Botas or another company, Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz said, Sabah newspaper reported on Monday.

"Earlier TAP Consortium proposed to Botas 15-percent share in the project. Now we intend to consider the proposal again,' the minister said.

According to him, at the same time another gas pipeline project Nabucco did not lose its significance as well and Turkey is still considering its implementation.

"Considering the growing demand for natural gas in the European Union, Turkey is sure that the Nabucco project will also be implemented," Yildiz said.

He noted that Nabucco and TAP projects are not competitors, on the contrary they can exist in parallel complementing each other.

A consortium of the Azerbaijani Shah Deniz gas condensate field development with about 1.2 trillion cubic meters of gas reserves, announced its choice of the TAP project in late June as a gas transportation route to European markets. Nabucco West was the second pipeline that competed for the transportation of Azerbaijani gas to Europe.

TAP is designed to transport gas from the Caspian region via Greece and Albania and across the Adriatic Sea to southern Italy and then to Western Europe.

The initial capacity of the TAP pipeline will be 10 billion cubic meters per year with the possibility of expanding to 20 billion cubic meters per year.

TAP shareholders are AXPO (42.5 per cent), Statoil (42.5 per cent and E.ON Ruhrgas (15 per cent).

The construction of TAP is expected to start in 2015.

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