Azerbaijan this month started supplying pure fuel to Germany and Austria through Italy utilizing the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline, the State Oil Firm of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) stated.
“Consequently, the variety of international locations shopping for Azerbaijani fuel has reached 16”, SOCAR stated in a short assertion on its web site.
“SOCAR in accordance with the fuel technique of the Republic of Azerbaijan established underneath the management of the President Ilham Aliyev continues to constantly broaden its fuel advertising and marketing actions throughout Europe and the Center East to broaden its portfolio of cooperation with patrons from varied international locations and to additional strengthen Azerbaijan’s place as a dependable power provider”.
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A part of the Southern Fuel Hall, TAP carries fuel from the Shah Deniz area on Azerbaijan’s facet of the Caspian Sea to Europe. The 877-kilometer (544.94 miles) pipeline connects with the Trans Anatolian Pipeline on the Turkiye-Greece border, then crosses Northern Greece, Albania and the Adriatic Sea earlier than touchdown in Southern Italy. Deliveries to European markets are through exit factors in Greece and Italy, in addition to interconnectors, in accordance with TAP, which has grow to be a completely fledged transmission system operator after launching into industrial operation December 2020.
Final yr Germany’s state-owned SEFE Securing Power for Europe GmbH signed up for a 10-year fuel provide from SOCAR. The primary supply was scheduled for that very same yr.
“The annual amount will step by step improve to fifteen terawatt hours, which is roughly 1.5 billion cubic meters [52.97 billion cubic feet]”, SEFE stated in a press launch June 10, 2025.
“This partnership will assist investments in manufacturing and infrastructure similar to fuel compressors, rising the quantity of pipeline fuel coming to Europe and thus making certain the continent’s safety of provide”.
About 4 years in the past Azerbaijan and the European Union agreed to double the capability of the Southern Fuel Hall to produce the bloc to at the least 20 billion cubic meters by 2027. The settlement was underneath a memorandum of understanding on a “strategic partnership within the area of power” introduced July 18, 2022.
TAP Growth
In keeping with a TAP assertion November 25, 2025, the pipeline has transported over 52 billion cubic meters of fuel to Europe since coming on-line.
TAP introduced then, “TAP has additionally efficiently accomplished the undertaking works in Kipoi compressor station in Greece, for the primary stage of capability enlargement, which is able to present a further 1.2 Bcm per yr of long-term capability to Europe from 1 January 2026”.
“The enlargement undertaking works, initiated in January 2024, had been concluded forward of schedule, on finances, safely and with out interrupting the continued fuel flows, demonstrating planning excellence and operational resilience”, the assertion added.
TAP chair Murad Heydarov stated on the time, “Whereas Europe strikes towards a lower-carbon future, I’m satisfied that TAP will stay an necessary contributor to a resilient and versatile power system”.
TAP is equally owned between Britain’s BP PLC, Spain’s Enagás SA, Belgium’s Fluxys SA, Italy’s Snam SpA and SOCAR.
Fuel Manufacturing Improve
Final yr SOCAR and Saipem SpA collectively gained contracts for a $2.9-billion undertaking to boost manufacturing within the BP-operated Shah Deniz area.
The compression undertaking will entry low-pressure fuel and allow the manufacturing of a further 50 billion cubic meters of fuel and 25 million barrels of condensate, in accordance with BP.
Saipem stated in a press launch October 15, 2025 it expects to begin work within the third quarter of 2026, to be accomplished 2029.
Shah Deniz went onstream 2006 via the Alpha platform, whereas the Bravo platform started manufacturing 2018, in accordance with BP.
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