TANAP's plans to increase capacity revealed

The capacity of the Trans-Anatolian Gas Pipeline (TANAP), which will initially be 16 billion cubic meters, is planned to increase to 24 billion cubic meters in the coming years, and then to 31 billion cubic meters, Director-General of TANAP Consortium Saltuk Duzyol said at a press conference today, Report informs.

According to him, the capacity of TANAP can be expanded up to 24 billion cubic meters of gas per year through the construction of additional compressor stations.

"When the pipeline's capacity is increased to 31 billion cubic meters, the number of compressor stations will reach seven," he said.

According to him, from the date of commissioning until the end of January 2022, the TANAP transported 14.5 billion cubic meters of gas to Turkey, and 9 billion cubic meters to Europe.

Natural gas from Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz field is transported to Turkey. Natural gas batches are delivered to the Turkish market via the South Caucasus Pipeline (Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum) and TANAP. The first gas entered the Turkish market via the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline in 2007. The transportation of commercial gas to Turkey via TANAP began on June 30, 2018.

Within the Southern Gas Corridor project, Azerbaijan's gas is supplied to the Turkish market through TANAP and the European market through TAP. It is planned to transfer 10 billion cubic meters of gas to Europe in the first stage and 20 billion cubic meters in the second stage. The total capacity of the Southern Gas Corridor will reach 31.5 billion cubic meters.