South Caucasus pipeline

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The South Caucasus Pipeline ( English South Caucasus pipeline - SCP; also Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline - BTE - or Shah Deniz pipeline ) is a natural gas - pipeline from Baku in Azerbaijan on Tbilisi in Georgia to Erzurum in Turkey. It is 690 kilometers long and pumps natural gas extracted from the Caspian Sea into the Turkish gas distribution network. The operator is British Petrol .

The South Caucasus pipeline runs from Baku to Erzurum.

history

Construction of the pipeline began in 2003 and was put into operation on May 21, 2006. It runs parallel to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline one meter underground and is initially designed for the transport of up to seven billion cubic meters of gas annually. The capacity is to be doubled later. The construction costs amounted to around one billion US dollars.

The gas came mainly from the Shah-Denis gas field, 100 kilometers south of Baku, and other Azerbaijani gas fields under the Caspian Sea.

The pipeline is part of the SCP Company, in turn, a consortium of SCP Owner Group (dt. SCP-owning group ). BP (28.8%), SOCAR through their subsidiaries AzSCP (10.0%) and SGC Midstream (6.7%), TPAO (19%), Petronas (15.5%), hold shares in SCP Co. Lukoil (10%) and National Iranian Oil Company through their subsidiary NICO (10%).

In 2001 Azerbaijan and the Turkish gas transport company Botas signed a contract in which Botas undertook to import two billion cubic meters of gas annually from 2005 onwards. However, in 2002 it became clear that Turkish gas consumption was falling.

Connection

Expansion plans for the pipelines. The South Caucasus pipeline is shown in green (as of December 2014)

The South Caucasus pipeline is to be connected to the Transanatolian Pipeline (TANAP), which transports gas to Europe , from 2019 . From Greece, the gas is to be forwarded south to Italy via the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), which is currently under construction . The Nabucco West Pipeline was planned as an extension to the north, to Austria . Due to a lack of demand and competition from South Stream , the plans for Nabuccuo 2013 were discontinued.

literature

  • International Energy Agency: Caspian oil and gas: The supply potential of Central Asia and Transcaucasia . OECD, Paris 1998, ISBN 92-64-16095-7
  • Charles van der Leeuw: Oil and gas in the Caucasus & Caspian: A history . Curzon, Richmond, Surrey 2000, ISBN 0-7007-1123-6
  • John Roberts: Caspian oil and gas: How far have we come and where are we going? In: Oil, transition and security in Central Asia . Routledge Shorton, London [a. a.] 2003, ISBN 0-415-31090-3

Individual evidence

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