BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 28. Bulgaria imported more than 920 million cubic meters of gas from Azerbaijan in 2023 with total value of 311.5 million euros, Eurostat, the European Union's statistical office, told Trend.
Bulgaria’s gas imports from Azerbaijan peaked in September standing at 79.8 million cubic meters, while the highest value was recorded in January with 30.7 million euros.
The table below shows the dynamics of monthly gas supplies from Azerbaijan to Bulgaria in 2023:
|
Month |
Volume of supplies (million cubic meters) |
Value of supplies (euros) |
|
January |
77.2 |
30 706 761 |
|
February |
75.08 |
27 380 169 |
|
March |
77.06 |
30 492 637 |
|
April |
74.8 |
29 873 543 |
|
May |
77.2 |
27 100 169 |
|
June |
74.8 |
26 627 458 |
|
July |
77.3 |
23 912 388 |
|
August |
77.3 |
23 313 783 |
|
September |
79.8 |
23 425 186 |
|
October |
76.7 |
23 084 907 |
|
November |
76.4 |
22 791 171 |
|
December |
76.5 |
22 821 788 |
Bulgaria started importing gas from Azerbaijan through the Greece-Bulgaria interconnector (IGB), which became operational on October 1, 2022. The contractual volume of gas supplies through this interconnector is 1 billion cubic meters per year, while the total capacity of the IGB stands at 3 billion cubic meters, expandable to 5 billion cubic meters annually.
Azerbaijan supplies gas to Europe via the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), a component of the Southern Gas Corridor, with a capacity of 10 billion cubic meters, expandable to 20 billion cubic meters per year.
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