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The EU wants to increase the capacity of TANAP Azerbaijani gas pipeline to Europe to 20 bcm in connection with a stop of South Stream project implementation

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Trend: EU requests to increase capacity of TANAP pipeline to 20 billion cubic meters

The European Union wants to increase the capacity of TANAP Azerbaijani gas pipeline to Europe to 20 billion cubic meters in connection with a stop of South Stream project implementation, RIA Novosti news agency said.

The relevant agreement was reached last week by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey Taner Yildiz and the new EU Energy Commissioner Marosh Shefchovich, according to the Spiegel magazine.

TANAP project involves the construction of a gas pipeline from Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz field through Georgia, Turkey, Greece, and Albania to the south of Italy. It is planned to supply 6 billion cubic meters of gas to Turkey and 10 billion cubic meters to Europe. In the future, capacity of the pipeline can be increased to 31 billion cubic meters.

"There are technical prerequisites for power increase," said Shefchovich. All the participants of negotiation agreed that the construction of the gas pipeline will be completed by 2019, according to him.
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