AzerNews: Azerbaijan Rebuffs Claims About Turkish Stream's Threat for SGC

Azerbaijan has rebuffed claims that the Turkish Stream poses a threat to its own Southern Gas Corridor project.

SOCAR Vice President Elshad Nasirov said that the Turkish Stream is not a rival to the Azerbaijan-initiated Southern Gas Corridor project, "since the country's gas volumes have been sold for a period of 25 years and the buyers are obliged to receive it."

Talking to journalists on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 19-21, Nasirov expressed Azerbaijan's intention to use the gas transportation potential of the Turkish Stream to transport excess future supply of domestically produced gas.

He said the construction of the Turkish Stream prior to the Southern Gas Corridor would not cause a problem, since the consumers of the Azerbaijani gas "are obliged to receive our gas by the time of construction of TAP [Trans-Adriatic Pipeline]."

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