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added. agreements on installing specialised 10bcm. Azerbaijani gas supplies via the TAP
"I am sure that there will be more. If you equipment and providing relevant services gas pipeline to consumers in Italy, Greece
look at our experience in developing oil and at gas fields in Turkmenistan. and Bulgaria began on December 31, 2020.
gas fields, you can see that the results always "Addendums to contracts between The project co-owners are: SOCAR
turn out to be higher than predicted," he Turkmengaz and CNPC [China National (20%), BP (20%), Snam (20%), Fluxys
concluded. Petroleum Corporation] regarding the (19%), Enagas (16%) and Axpo (5%).
Aliyev also said that the Babek field has installation of specialised equipment and The cost of the project is €4.5bn. TAP
gas reserves of 400 bcm, and Umid 200 the provision of relevant services at the groundbreaking took place on May 17, 2016
bcm. "In addition, we have great hopes for Galkynysh, Garabil, and Bagaja gas fields in Greece.
the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli block of fields. are expected to be signed," state-run
There will be several hundred billion cubic Chronicles of Turkmenistan has reported .
meters of gas in the deep layers of these The report said the value of the Russia’s Gazpromneft-
fields, and I believe that this gas will be agreements would reach $106.2mn.
produced in the near future," Aliyev said. In addition, Turkmengaz and CNPC Aero acquires 51% of
Simson and EU Commissioner for are to sign additional agreements to change
Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement the terms on payment for several services, aviation refuelling complex
Oliver Várhelyi attended the 8th Ministerial including the supply of 16 wells at the
Meeting of the Southern Gas Corridor Galkynysh gas field with chemical products at Kyrgyzstan's Osh
Consultative Council. The meeting was held and the preparation of drilling fluids, as
on February 4 with Shahbazov opening the well as the provision of well engineering International Airport
panel. services.
On the sidelines of the conference, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Russia’s Gazpromneft-Aero, the operator
Várhelyi also met MFA Jeyhun Bayramov Berdimuhamedov has, meanwhile, approved of Gazprom Neft's aviation refuelling
the same day. Varhelyi said that a €2bn the roadmap for the development of business, has acquired 51% of the charter
financial package had been allocated to international cooperation in Turkmenistan capital in the aviation refuelling complex of
Azerbaijan within the economic investment in the field of hydrogen energy in 2022- Kyrgyzstan's Osh International Airport.
plan and that the implementation of 2023.. The new facility is set to manage "wing-
specific projects was being considered. tip" refuelling of domestic and international
He also added that the EU was ready to flights at what is Kyrgyzstan's second largest
participate in the process of restoration and Azerbaijan plans to export passenger airport. The aviation fuel will be
reconstruction in Azerbaijan. supplied by Gazprom Neft's Omsk Refinery.
an additional 400 mcm/y Kyrgyzstan's southern regions with the
Osh International Airport connects
Caspian Pipeline "Attracting investments in the country's capital, Bishkek. International
flights to over 30 destinations,
implementation of offshore wind energy
Consortium to increase oil projects will allow Azerbaijan to save 400 including Moscow, New Delhi and Istanbul,
mcm of gas per year and send these volumes operate from the airport, along with
exports in 2022 for export", Energy Minister of Azerbaijan domestic flights. Airlines that operate flights
at the airport include Nordwind, Jazeera
Parviz Shahbazov said on February 3.
Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) has Shahbazov mentioned that at the meeting Airways, Aeroflot, S7 Group, Avia Traffic,
announced plans to increase oil exports to of the Advisory Council of the Southern Air Manas, Tez Jet and Ural Airlines.
62.5mn tonnes in 2022 from 60.73mn in Gas Corridor project on February 4 in Vladimir Egorov, director general at
2021. Baku, where issues of the energy transition Gazpromneft-Aero, said: “Expanding our
On a daily basis, CPC oil exports may will be discussed for the first time: “This own retail network - to more than 100
rise approximately by 2.9% in 2022, Reuters meeting provides an opportunity to develop refuelling complexes - is one of the key
reported. the Southern Gas Corridor as a project that areas in Gazpromneft-Aero's strategic
Kazakhstan's oil exports via CPC are set resonates with global challenges and the development to 2030. This new refuelling
to rise to 55mn tonnes in 2022 from 53mn goals of carbon neutrality, and to deepen facility in Osh is the company's 66th
tonnes in 2021. cooperation with our partners in the field of refuelling complex, and its second in
green energy within the framework of the Kyrgyzstan - the company having started
Advisory Council,” the minister added. refuelling aircraft at Manas International
Chinese, Turkmen firms Thursday with the Managing Director of Airport [the republic's central airport] in
Shahbazov also held a meeting on
2011. Acquiring this refuelling complex in
plan agreements on TAP AG pipeline company Luca Schieppati: Omsk marks an important investment in
developing our aviation refuelling network”
“We discussed the launch of the Trans-
specialised equipment and Adriatic gas pipeline at full capacity and Osh refuelling infrastructure in line with
Gazpromneft-Aero plans to develop the
the possibility of increasing supplies in the
services at gas fields in future,” Shakhbazov wrote on his Twitter international standards in aircraft ground
account.
handling. .
Turkmenistan predicts that gas exports from Azerbaijan to
The International Energy Agency (IEA)
Chinese and Turkmen state-owned oil and Europe via the Trans-Adriatic Gas Pipeline
gas companies reportedly plan additional (TAP) in 2022 will reach the projected

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