Ankara called TANAP an alternative to Russian gas supplies to the EU

TANAP was opened in 2018 and is part of the Southern Gas Corridor project from Azerbaijan to Italy. According to Erdogan's spokesman, the gas pipeline is one of the alternative routes for transporting gas to the EU

The Trans-Anatolian Gas Pipeline (TANAP) is an alternative to Russian gas supplies for Europe, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said, Axar reports.

“One of the two main alternatives [to Russian gas for the EU] is TANAP, a joint project between Turkey and Azerbaijan,” he said.

According to him, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, in a conversation with his Turkish counterpart Reyzhep Erdogan, called for "filling the gap" in the European gas market.

At the same time, Kalyn recalled that alternative projects such as Nabucco (a gas pipeline project from Iran, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan to Europe) have not been implemented in the past.

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The 1,850 km gas pipeline for the transportation of Azerbaijani gas from the Shah Deniz field to Europe was opened in June 2018. Its throughput capacity is about 16 billion cubic meters. m of gas, 10 billion of which were planned to be supplied to the EU countries.

TANAP is part of the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC) project with a length of 3.5 thousand km from Baku to southern Italy. The project consists of three parts: the South Caucasian gas pipeline Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum, which runs through the territory of Azerbaijan and Georgia to the border with Turkey, the Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline (TANAP), which runs through the territory of Turkey, and the Trans-Adriatic gas pipeline (TAP), which passes through the territory of Greece, Albania and Italy. The cost of SGC was estimated at about $40 billion.

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Since the end of February, the European Union has introduced several packages of sanctions against Russia, but they did not directly affect gas supplies. At the same time, the Russian Gazprom has been reducing the volume of pumping through the Nord Stream since mid-June due to the fact that the turbine of the German company Siemens, which was being repaired in CANADA, could not be returned to Russia due to sanctions.

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