Transportation via Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline up 5% in January

The main gas pipelines of Azerbaijan transported 3,674.6 million cubic meters of gas in January 2022, up 3.5% from the previous year, Report informs, citing the State Statistics Committee.

Some 45.8% or 1,683.1 million cubic meters of gas was transported via the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum Pipeline during the reporting period.

1.683 billion cubic meters of gas was transported via the South Caucasus Pipeline (also known as Baku–Tbilisi–Erzurum Pipeline), 4.7% more than a year ago.

The South Caucasus Pipeline supplies gas from the Shah Deniz gas condensate field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea to Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey. The South Caucasus Pipeline was commissioned in late 2006 and began transporting gas produced under the first phase of the Shah Deniz field. In the summer of 2018, the gas produced under the second phase of the Shah Deniz field will be delivered to Turkey via the expanded South Caucasus Pipeline - TANAP.