BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 15. The South Caucasus Pipeline (Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum) transported more than 19.9 billion cubic meters of gas from January through November 2023, compared to 18.9 billion cubic meters during the same period in 2022, Trend reports citing the State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan.
This reflects a 5.5 percent increase in the volume of gas supplies through the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline compared to the corresponding period last year. In the reporting period of 2023, it constituted 55.3 percent of the total gas transported through Azerbaijan's main gas pipelines, up from 53.8 percent in the same period of 2022.
Overall, more than 36 billion cubic meters of gas were transported through Azerbaijan's main gas pipelines from January through November 2023, marking a 2.6 percent increase compared to the previous year (more than 35 billion cubic meters).
The South Caucasus Gas Pipeline has been operational since the end of 2006, facilitating gas transportation from the Shah Deniz field to Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Türkiye. Commercial deliveries from the expanded section of the pipeline to Türkiye commenced in June 2018, followed by European deliveries in December 2020.
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