By Trend
The Southern Gas Corridor is an impressive technological and diplomatic achievement, the US Embassy in Baku said in a statement, Trend reports.
The statement was made following the 7th Southern Gas Corridor Advisory Council ministerial meeting where Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Diplomacy Kurt Donnelly and Ambassador Litzenberger took part.
The embassy said it is proud of the cooperation between state partners and private companies to complete this project on time and $7 billion under budget. We now look forward to expanding the SGC with new sources of gas delivered to existing and new markets, the statement said.
BY Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:
The Southern Gas Corridor is an impressive technological and diplomatic achievement, the US Embassy in Baku said in a statement, Trend reports.
The statement was made following the 7th Southern Gas Corridor Advisory Council ministerial meeting where Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Diplomacy Kurt Donnelly and Ambassador Litzenberger took part.
The embassy said it is proud of the cooperation between state partners and private companies to complete this project on time and $7 billion under budget. We now look forward to expanding the SGC with new sources of gas delivered to existing and new markets, the statement said.
By Alper Ziya - Trend:
The Southern Gas Corridor is an energy security and energy diversification project. Energy security today is an issue of national security for all countries. Energy diversification is also important for consumer and producer countries. Thus, I think that we have achieved an unprecedented format of cooperation. There is a correctly calculated balance of interests, where the interests of Azerbaijan as a producer coincide with the interests of transit countries and consumers. The implementation of the project, which some individuals considered unreal, became possible thanks to this.
These views, voiced by President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on February 11 during a speech at the 7th videoconference meeting of ministers within the Southern Gas Corridor Advisory Council, reaffirmed the importance of this project both for the region and the entire European continent.