BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 7. Access to Azerbaijani gas, is a priority for Serbia, Minister of Energy of the Republic of Serbia, Dubravka Djedovic said in an exclusive interview with Trend Dec.7.
‘When the global energy crisis began many European countries, including Serbia, were in the stage of having insufficiently diversified routes and suppliers. That would be unfavourable even under conditions when there is no crisis, whereas in the current circumstances in Europe it represents a serious risk for energy security which, in turn, is increasingly becoming a matter of national security. Access to other gas suppliers, primarily to Azerbaijani gas, is a priority for us and we have been already actively working on that,” she said.
Djedovic pointed out that the prerequisite for enabling the natural gas from Azerbaijan to reach Serbia is the construction of gas infrastructure.
“This year, Serbia started the construction of a gas interconnector with Bulgaria which should be completed in the last quarter of next year. This will enable us, already in the first quarter of 2024, to connect with the TAP gas pipeline that supplies natural gas to Greece, and then through the recently opened Greece-Bulgaria Interconnector this energy source will also reach our market,” added the minister.
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, annually supplies eight billion cubic meters of gas to Italy and one billion cubic meters of gas to Greece and Bulgaria.
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