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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.
Bad News For Russia, As Gas From Azerbaijan Now Flows To Western Europe
The long-awaited Southern Gas Corridor (SGC) project officially began operating on the last day of 2020, as Azerbaijani oil and gas company SOCAR reported the first commercial gas delivery from the Azeri Shah Deniz offshore field to Italy’s Melendugno point on the Adriatic coast. The 3500 km-long pipeline project consists of three sub-pipeline routes – the South Caucasus Pipeline Expansion (SCPX), the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) and the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) and will deliver 16 billion cubic meters of gas per year (bcma). Of this volume, Turkey will get 6 bcm and Europe will get 10 bcm.