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TAP fully committed to transport Shah Deniz volumes

25 January 2017 13:57 (UTC+04:00)
TAP fully committed to transport Shah Deniz volumes

By Nigar Abbasova

The consortium of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) is fully committed to transporting Shah Deniz phase II volumes – initially 10 bcm of gas per year – from the Caspian Sea through Greece, Albania and into Italy.

TAP Head of Communications Lisa Givert announced about this while commenting on Russian Gazprom’s plans to use the pipeline for delivering its gas to Europe.

“The pipeline, a final step of the Southern Gas Corridor, is underpinned by a long-term gas transportation agreement for a period of 25 years,” she told Trend.

This week, Russia’s energy major Gazprom declared for the first time that it may be interested in using the TAP for delivering Russian gas to Italy.

Deputy CEO of Gazprom Alexander Medvedev said that the company is discussing the possibility of using Poseidon (the offshore section of the Interconnector Turkey-Greece-Italy (ITGI)) and TAP to export gas to Europe.

He added that Russia has sufficient capacity to deliver more than 100 bcm of extra gas to Europe, mentioning that the main obstacle is infrastructure problem.

“We need additional infrastructure to bring the volumes to Europe. Capacities of Nord Stream 2 and Turkish Stream may be non sufficient enough. Therefore, we consider using capacity of the Poseidon project that will be ready soon, or maybe TAP,” he said.

TAP project envisages transportation of gas from the Stage 2 of development of Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz gas and condensate field to the EU countries. The pipeline will be connected to the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) on the Turkish-Greek border, run through Greece, Albania and the Adriatic Sea, before coming ashore in Italy's south.

The project is currently in its construction phase, which started in 2016.

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Nigar Abbasova is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @nigyar_abbasova

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