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Since the flare-up of the long-standing Caspian Sea border dispute between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, neither side has budged to resolve the matter in order to move forward on joint projects, notably the Trans-Caspian Pipeline. In June, Turkmenistan's Foreign Ministry protested what it deemed "illegal...
A SOCAR official has said that the Nabucco West project is still in the running to be the pipeline to carry gas from the Azeri Shah Deniz field. In a statement to Reuters yesterday, SOCAR's German spokesperson Elmar Mamedov said that the company was still in discussions with both the Nabucco consortium...
BP is seeking to take a stake in the Trans Anatolian pipeline (TANAP), a BP official has told the Trend news agency. Discussing the matter with the news agency, BP country manager for Turkey Bud Fackrell said that BP would be seeking to take a stake in the pipeline project from Azeri national gas company...
BP has charted an increase in gas production at the massive Azeri Shah Deniz field despite a drop in output in oil in the same country, the company noted today. The increase in production on the field was noted for the first half of 2012. In that period, gas production grew from the Shah Deniz field...
Azerbaijan’s state energy company SOCAR is increasingly stepping onto the world stage, with deals – upstream and downstream – in Israel, Georgia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Romania and Switzerland. Over the past few months and weeks it has become increasingly clear that the company, and...
Azerbaijan will not invest in the Trans-Caspian pipeline, its energy minister has said, nor does it see the possibility of the project being built any time soon. Speaking to journalists yesterday, Azeri Minister for Energy Natig Aliyev said that should the pipeline be built, it is not Azerbaijan who...
The joint report titled “Strategic Imperative: Azerbaijani Gas Strategy and the EU’s Southern Corridor” has been published in the 5th issue of the SAM Review Journal of the Center for Strategic Studies of Azerbaijan. Authors Gulmira Rzayeva and Theodoros G.R. Tsakiris examine...
Nabucco spokesman Christian Dolezal has said that the shareholders in the Nabucco project were surprised by an intergovernmental agreement between Turkey and Azerbaijan on the Trans Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP). Speaking in an interview with the Azeri Press Agency (APA), Mr. Dolezal said that although...
After years of political bickering and commercial uncertainty, Europe’s Southern Gas Corridor project is finally gaining traction. If all goes well, Caspian gas can start flowing to Europe no later than 2018, easing the overdependence on Russian energy imports. Final decisions on Azerbaijan's...
Poland fully supports Azerbaijan's efforts to diversify the gas market, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has said on a visit to Azeri capital Baku. The visit to Azerbaijan by the Foreign Minister was to mark the 20th anniversary of the beginning of political relations between the two countries.
