PAccording to the head of Azerbaijan, the country has no goal to compete with Russia in the European gas market. The day before, he announced plans to double the volume of gas supplies to the European Union Ilham Aliyev Azerbaijan has never set out to compete with Russia in the European gas market and fulfills contracts in accordance with its obligations. This was stated by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. “I want to note one important point: neither before nor now have we set out to compete with Russian gas in the European market. We have our own niche. We have concluded gas supply agreements for three European countries, that is, Italy, Greece and Bulgaria. There is also a need in other European countries (for Azerbaijani gas RBC), and we are now assessing this need,” he said. By the end of 2021, Gazprom supplied 185.1 billion cubic meters of gas to non-CIS countries, of which about 155 billion cubic meters to the European Union and Turkey. Azerbaijan supplied about 8.2 billion cubic meters of gas to Europe in 2021. The day before, during a speech at the forum in the Italian city of Cernobbio, Aliyev noted that Azerbaijan plans to double the volume of gas supplies to Europe. According to him, a month ago the EU and Azerbaijan signed a memorandum on strategic partnership in the energy sector, the next step should be political technical solutions, as well as investments. “The capacity of TANAP is 16 billion cubic meters. We plan to increase it to 32 billion cubic meters. The capacity of the TAP is 10 billion cubic meters, currently it is operating at full capacity and we need to increase its capacity to at least 20 billion cubic meters,” the head of Azerbaijan said. In mid-July, Aliyev and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen signed a memorandum on energy cooperation in Baku. Among other things, the document referred to doubling the capacity of the Southern Gas Corridor. According to von der Leyen, the agreement will help compensate for interruptions in Russian gas supplies by 2027 and increase the security of supplies to Europe.
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TANAP is part of the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC) project from Baku to the south of Italy. It consists of three parts: the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum South Caucasus gas pipeline running through Azerbaijan and Georgia to the border with Turkey, the Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline (TANAP) running through Turkey, and the Trans-Adriatic Gas Pipeline (TAP) passing through Greece, Albania and Italy. The cost of SGC was estimated at about $40 billion.
In July, Turkey, which is also a member of TANAP, called the pipeline an alternative to Russian gas supplies to the EU. At that time, the representative of the Turkish leader Ibrahim Kalyn said that Aliyev, in a conversation with his Turkish counterpart Recep Erdogan, called for “filling the gap” in the European gas market.
The European Union has imposed several packages of sanctions against Russia since the end of February, but they have not directly affected gas supplies. At the same time, the Russian Gazprom has been reducing the volume of pumping along the Nord Stream since mid-June due to the fact that the turbine of the German company Siemens, which was under repair in Canada, was not due to sanctionscould have been returned to Russia. On September 2, Gazprom completely stopped supplies via the Nord Stream. In Europe, Russia was accused of political reasons for stopping supplies, Moscow refers to technical problems.
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