2024-04-27 01:31:53
Representatives of bp, SOCAR and Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) presented their vision regarding gas production and supplies by Azerbaijan at the Flame 2024 gas conference in Amsterdam, Day.Az reported on Friday.
The conference took place on April 23-25 and brought together more than 300 representatives of companies specializing in the development of the gas industry.
The interests of Azerbaijan at this international event were represented by SOCAR Deputy Vice President Vitaly Beglyarbekov, BP Vice President for the Caspian Region Bakhtiyar Aslanbeyli and TAP representative Maria Savova.
In their speeches, they focused on the development of the Shah Deniz field (bp is the production operator, SOCAR and TAP are among the companies responsible for transporting gas from Shah Deniz).
As commercial director of TAP AG Maria Savova stated at the conference, TAP’s capacity for delivering Azerbaijani gas to Europe can be increased gradually.
Beglyarbekov mentioned that the first stage of expansion will start in January 2026 (by 1.2 billion cubic meters) and concerns the growth of TAP throughput to 14 billion cubic meters per year from the current 12 billion cubic meters.
It should be noted that gas from Shah Deniz (1 billion cubic meters) is also involved in this stage of increasing TAP’s capacity.
Let us recall that Azerbaijan has been supplying gas to the EU since December 2020.
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