BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 16. Bulgaria paid 30 492 637 euros for natural gas imports from Azerbaijan in March 2023, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, told Trend.
The volume of gas exports from Azerbaijan to Bulgaria stood at 44.5 million cubic meters.
Bulgaria imported a total of over 196.5 million cubic meters of Azerbaijani gas worth 88 579 567 euros from January through March 2023.
Bulgaria started importing gas from Azerbaijan via the Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB) which was put into operation on October 1, 2022. The contracted volume of gas supplies via this interconnector is 1 billion cubic meters per year. The total capacity of IGB is 3 billion cubic meters, expandable to 5 billion cubic meters per year.
Azerbaijan exports gas to Europe via the Trans Adriatic Pipeline, the final leg of the Southern Gas Corridor. The initial capacity of TAP is 10 billion cubic meters expandable to 20 billion cubic meters per year.
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