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Consortium head: TANAP - vital project

Oil&Gas Materials 13 June 2018 16:02 (UTC +04:00)
The Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) is a vital project, the Turkish media quoted Saltuk Duzyol, head of TANAP consortium, as saying June 13.
Consortium head: TANAP - vital project

Baku, Azerbaijan, June 13

By Rufiz Hafizoglu – Trend:

The Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) is a vital project, the Turkish media quoted Saltuk Duzyol, head of TANAP consortium, as saying June 13.

Duzyol added that TANAP also contributes to the diversification of energy sources, which is very important now.

“Turkey bought Azerbaijani gas at reasonable prices,” he said. "TANAP is a strategically important project for Turkey and Azerbaijan."

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko and Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic attended the inauguration ceremony of TANAP project in the city of Eskisehir, Turkey on June 12.

The launching ceremony of the first stage of the Southern Gas Corridor project was held in Baku on May 29.

The gas from Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz field has already gone through the first segment of the Southern Gas Corridor - from the Sangachal terminal to the expanded South Caucasus Pipeline.

TANAP together with Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) is a part of the Southern Gas Corridor, which envisages the transportation of gas from Shah Deniz field to Europe.

The initial capacity of TANAP is expected to be 16 billion cubic meters of gas per year. About six billion cubic meters will be supplied to Turkey, and the rest to Europe. After completion of the TAP, the gas will reach Europe in early 2020.

The share distribution in TANAP is as follows: Southern Gas Corridor CJSC - 51 percent, SOCAR Turkey Enerji - 7 percent, Botas - 30 percent, and BP - 12 percent.

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