Energy Global posts article on Azerbaijan-Turkey-Romania energy cooperation

Baku, April 30 (AzerTAc). The UK-based Energy Global website has issued an article headlined “Azerbaijan, Turkey and Romania co-operate to ensure energy security”. The article quotes State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) Romania General Manager Hamza Karimov as saying that “Azerbaijan, Turkey and Romania are co-operating to ensure the energy security of the region through all the projects planned and implemented”. "Through all the projects planned and implemented, namely the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), Trans Anatolian Gas Pipeline (TANAP), the southern corridor and other commitments, we want to create a significant economic basis between the three countries, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Romania.” “As to our economic relations with Romania, worth mentioned is that in the summer of 2013 the TAP project was selected to provide Azeri gas to the European markets, as part of the Shah Deniz 2nd project. The TAP project provides for supplying gas from the Caspian region through Greece, Albania and the Adriatic Sea, near Italy's south, and further to Western Europe," the website quotes Karimov, who sent a declaration to AGERPRES. “The annual capacity of the pipeline, whose construction will begin in 2015, will be 10 billion m3. In the near future, the pipeline's extension to the countries of the Balkans and Romania, as well as the implementation of the AGRI project to carry gas to Romania and to Central Europe, which will allow the delivery of natural gas from Azerbaijan to Romania, are also in the focus of attention.” The full text of the article is available at: http://www.energyglobal.com/news/pipelines/articles/Azerbaijan_Turkey_and_Romania_cooperate_to_ensure_energy_security.