BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec.8
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
There is great attention for hydrogen at the two opposite ends of the Southern Gas Corridor, Trend quoted Luca Schieppati, TAP managing director as saying.
Schieppati recalled that Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR and Italian Snam a few months ago signed a memorandum to conduct research and experiments in this field together.
“TAP looks with extreme attention to hydrogen and for this reason we are about to undertake a feasibility study to verify the percentages of hydrogen mixed with natural gas transportable by our infrastructure,” he told Energia Oltre.
Four and a half years after the inauguration of construction works in Thessaloniki, Southern Gas Corridor’s European leg, the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), an 878-km gas transportation system crossing Greece, Albania, the Adriatic Sea and Italy, began commercial operations.
Gas supplies via the Southern Gas Corridor will begin in coming months, Ibrahim Ahmadov, deputy head of the Public Relations and Event Management Department at Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR, told Trend.
“After the completion of construction, the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) was connected to the network of Italian Snam company. Thereby, the pipeline running from Azerbaijan to Europe has been connected to the European network and is fully ready for gas supplies. It means that the Southern Gas Corridor has been completed. Direct gas transportation from the Caspian basin to Europe via this system will start in coming months,” he said.
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