BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 7. Serbia is in talks on reserving pipeline capacity to get Azerbaijani gas, said Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia and Minister of Mining and Energy, Prof. Zorana Mihajlovic, Trend reports citing the ministry.
She noted that Russia annually delivers 2.2 billion cubic meters of gas to Serbia, while the country’s consumption nears 3 billion cubic meters per year.
“The gap will be filled partially from the gas storage in Hungary and Banatski Dvor underground gas storage. Next year we will be able to get 40 percent of gas via the Nis-Dimitrovgrad pipeline. We expect primarily import gas from Azerbaijan and talks are underway to reserve the capacity for the moment when the pipeline’s construction is completed,” Mihajlovic explained.
The supply of Azerbaijani gas to Europe through the Southern Gas Corridor began on December 31, 2020. Azerbaijan exported its natural gas to the European market through pipelines for the first time in history.
The Trans Adriatic pipeline (TAP) which is the European part of the Southern Gas Corridor, will annually supply eight billion cubic meters of gas to Italy and one billion cubic meters of gas to Greece and Bulgaria.
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