Azerbaijan becomes commercial operator in South Caucasus gas pipeline

Baku, Azerbaijan, May 1 By Maksim Tsurkov – Trend: SOCAR (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan) has become the commercial operator of the South Caucasus gas pipeline through which Azerbaijan currently sells its gas to Georgia and Turkey. Gas is extracted at the Shah Deniz field. Previously, Norwegian Statoil company was the commercial operator. It left the project by selling its share to the Malaysian Petronas company. --- follow the author on Twitter: @MaksimTsurkov Story still developing Follow us on Twitter @TRENDNewsAgency