Parviz Shahbazov: 29 bcm of Azerbaijani gas transported via TANAP

To date, 29 billion cubic meters of Azerbaijani natural gas have been transported via the Trans-Anatolian Gas Pipeline (TANAP), Azerbaijani Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov said at a conference held within the Baku Energy Forum, Report informs.

According to Shahbazov, 6.8 billion cubic meters of this volume were transported this year. By the end of 2022, TANAP is expected to transport 16 billion cubic meters of gas.

The minister added that 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas are planned to be exported to Europe this year.

Natural gas batches are delivered to the Turkish market via the South Caucasus Pipeline (Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum) and TANAP. The first batch of Azerbaijani gas entered the Turkish market via the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline in 2007. The transportation of commercial gas to Turkiye via TANAP began on June 30, 2018.

The Azerbaijani natural gas transported to Turkiye is extracted from the Shah Deniz field.