TANAP Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline

The length of TANAP from the Georgian-Turkish border to the western borders of Turkey is 1850 kilometers. It delivers gas from the Azerbaijani Shah Deniz field in the Caspian Sea. Its capacity is 16 billion cubic meters, of which 10 billion are planned to be sent to Europe, and 6 billion cubic meters to the western regions of Turkey. In the future, it is expected that the pipe capacity will be brought to 31 billion cubic meters.

Southern Gas Corridor

TANAP is part of the Southern Gas Corridor project.

In addition to TANAP, the Southern Gas Corridor includes the South Caucasus Pipeline Line (SCP) from Baku via Georgia to the border with Turkey, as well as the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) connecting Greece, Albania and the Adriatic Sea in southern Italy.

2022: Plan to double corridor capacity to 20 bcm per year

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a memorandum of energy cooperation in Baku in July 2022. According to it, the capacity of the Southern Gas Corridor will be doubled. The volume of supplies by 2027 should grow to 20 billion cubic meters.

Azerbaijani gas is looked at not only in Central Europe, but also in the Balkans. In 2022, in addition to the main partner countries (Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania and Italy) and participating companies (SOCAR, BP, TPAO), representatives of Romania, Croatia, Montenegro, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia were also invited to the meeting of the UGK Advisory Council in Baku.

Bulgaria is already receiving Azerbaijani blue fuel, but the volumes are not yet impressive: exports for the first half of 2022 amounted to only 160 million cubic meters. At the opening ceremony of the IGB interconnector in Komotini, the Minister of Energy of Azerbaijan promised to bring it to 600 million by the end of 2022. The country consumes about 3 billion cubic meters per year.

The Minister of Energy of Serbia is also dreaming of diversification: he is looking forward to completing the Niš-Dimitrovgrad interconnector and is already negotiating to reserve Azerbaijan's gas capacity for 2023. Macedonians also hope to receive blue fuel through the Trans-Adriatic Gas Pipeline, but soberly assessing the situation, Skopje still prudently joined countries ready to pay for Russian gas in rubles. Not wise: the share of Russian supplies is still 100%.

The rest of the region is still waiting for the launch of the Ionian-Adriatic Pipeline (IAP). Having connected to TAP in the city of Fieri, it must pass through Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina to Croatia. They started talking about the project back in 2014, but the construction was very delayed. Now commissioning is promised by 2025.

However, the main problem is not so much in the organization of supplies as in the volumes of production at the Shah Deniz field: in the first half of 2022, it turned out to increase it only to 23 billion cubic meters. Do not forget that in addition to the already undertaken export obligations, Baku is also faced with the task of ensuring an energy balance within the country itself, therefore, less than half of the gas produced is exported. Yes, in the six months of 2022, indicators increased by 25% and amounted to almost 12 billion cubic meters. But only 2.6 billion of them went to Europe. For comparison: Russian gas supplies in 2021 reached 155 billion, which amounted to about 40% of European gas consumption.

So the Azerbaijani authorities, with all their desire, will not be able to provide all those thirsty for a sufficient amount of energy resources, no matter what they say and whatever memoranda they conclude.

2020: Azerbaijan displaces Russia from Turkey's gas and oil markets

By September 2020, Gazprom"" completely lost the gas market. Turkey In fact, deliveries on "" To the Turkish stream stopped, and the "Blue Stream," standing for planned repairs, was never launched.

Turkey replaces Russian gas with raw materials from Azerbaijan, which has become the largest supplier to the country. Over the past six months, Azerbaijan exported 8.7 billion cubic meters of gas. The supply of fuel from the Shah Deniz field to Turkey through the Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline in January-August approached 3 billion cubic meters.

Now Azerbaijan occupies 23.5% of the share of the Turkish market, Iran - 14.2%, and in terms of the supply of liquefied natural gas, it entered the first lines Qatar. Algeria Russia in the list of suppliers dropped to 5th place.

Threatened by the supply of Russian oil to the region. Turkey's largest refinery, STAR, has replaced Urals with varieties from Iraq and Norway. The plant with a capacity of 210 thousand barrels per day, which belongs to the Azerbaijani SOCAR, does not buy a barrel of Urals for the second month in a row, although in the past it was one of the country's largest customers of Russian oil workers.

2019: Pipeline Commissioning

30 Nov 2019 Presidents of Turkey and Azerbaijan Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ilham Aliyev launched the final section of the Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline (TANAP). It will deliver gas from the Caspian region to Europe, bypassing Russia.

According to Aliyev, this project "will create bridges and lead to a larger agreement between the participants." Seven states, including three EU members, "will continue joint cooperation for a long time and reap the benefits together," the Azerbaijani president added at a launch ceremony in the Turkish province of Edirne. He estimated the cost of the Southern Gas Corridor at $38 billion (in terms of 34.5 billion euros).

2018: First section commissioned

The first section of the Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline was commissioned in June 2018.

2015: Start of construction

The TANAP construction project was launched in 2015.

See also

• Gas exports from Russia
• Nord Stream AG (Nord Stream)
• South Stream AG
• Turkish Stream (TurkStream)
• Power of Siberia
• Baltic Pipe

• Technologies in the Gas Industry
• US and EU sanctions on Russian oil and gas sector