TAP enters critical period

摘要

The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) is an 878 km pipeline that will transport gas from the Shah Deniz II field in Azerbaijan through the European section of the Southern Gas Corridor, a 3,500 km system providing a gateway to deliver up to 10 billion m'/a of new Caspian gas supplies to Europe from 2020. Gas is first transported from Shah Deniz II, a US$28 billion subsea development in the Caspian Sea, via the 692 km South Caucasus Pipeline, then connected to the Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) at the Turkish-Georgian border. From there, product is moved more than 1,800 km to Kipoi, Greece, where TAP begins, with the gas then transported to Italy's gas transportation network in the south of the country, via Albania.