TANAP to increase gas transportation by 18% this year 

Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) transported 13.73 billion cubic meters of gas to Turkiye and Europe in 2021, Report informs, citing the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR).

Azerbaijan is planning to increase gas transportation by 18% this year. Thus, the pipeline is planned to transport 16.2 billion cubic meters of gas by the end of this year.

Natural gas from Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz field is transported to Turkey. Natural gas volumes 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 via 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.