BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 19. The volume of gas transportation through Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum (South Caucasus Pipeline) increased in 2022, the Azerbaijan State Statistics Committee told Trend.
According to the committee, this figure exceeded 20.8 billion cubic meters, up by 18.1 percent compared to 2021 (17.6 billion cubic meters).
Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum accounted for 53 percent of gas transported through Azerbaijan’s main gas pipelines last year, versus 50.2 percent in 2021.
Azerbaijan’s main gas pipelines transported nearly 39.2 billion cubic meters in 2022, as compared to 35.1 billion cubic meters in the previous year, showing 11.7 percent growth.
The SCP shareholders are: BP (29.99 percent), LUKOIL (19.99 percent), TPAO (19 percent), SOCAR (14.35 percent), NICO (10 percent) and SGC (6.7 percent).
The SCP has been operational since late 2006, transporting Shah Deniz gas to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Türkiye. The expanded section of the pipeline commenced commercial deliveries to Türkiye in June 2018 and to Europe in December 2020.
The transfer of South Caucasus Pipeline Company (SCPC) technical operatorship from BP Exploration (Shah Deniz) Limited to SOCAR Midstream Operations LLC was completed on August 1, 2022.