Georgia intends to receive 1 bln cubic m of gas a year for transit in the framework of Southern Gas Corridor
Georgia, one of the participants of the Southern Gas Corridor project, intends to annually receive about 1 bln cubic m of gas for transit from 2020, the PM of Georgia, G. Kvirikashvili, said.
On Tuesday he participated in the ceremony of the start of construction of TAP by which Azeri gas will be pumped to Europe.
TAP is a part of Southern Gas Corridor which presupposes the construction of the system of gas pipelines TANAP- TAP with the length of 3.46 thousand km from the Azeri deposit Shakh-Deniz via Georgia, Turkey, Greece, Albania and Adriatic Sea to the south of Italy.
The total value of the project is $45 bln. Its main stages are: the realization of Shakh-Deniz-2 with the value of $28 bln, expansion of the South-Caucasus pipeline system Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum, construction of TANAP from the eastern to the western border of Turkey and TAP.
