Gas transportation via Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline up nearly 14%

In January-April 2022, 13,923,100,000 cubic meters of gas were pumped through Azerbaijan's main gas pipelines, 12.4% more than the previous year, Report informs, citing the State Statistics Committee.

In the total volume of gas pumped through the main gas pipelines, 48.7% or 6,788,500,000 cubic meters were exported via the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline (South Caucasus gas pipeline), up 13.8% from a year earlier.

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.