BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 7. By connecting to the Southern Gas Corridor, Serbia will not only increase its energy security and safety by ensuring an additional supply route, but it will also gain an opportunity to become a transit country through which that gas will reach other countries both in the region and in Europe, Minister of Energy of the Republic of Serbia, Dubravka Djedovic said in an exclusive interview with Trend Dec.7.
“The significance of gas supplies to Europe via the Southern Gas Corridor will certainly increase in the coming years, as evidenced by the EU's interest in increasing gas imports from Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani gas would certainly contribute to the solution for increasing energy security in Europe, and this is especially true for our region, which has yet to diversify its sources of supply,” she added.
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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