Botas to repurchase lands under construction of TANAP gas pipeline

Turkey’s Botas state pipeline company will repurchase lands over the whole route under the construction of the Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline (TANAP), according to a message posted on the website of Turkish Resmi Gazete newspaper. The TANAP project envisages gas transportation from the Shah Deniz field to Europe via Turkey. The pipeline’s initial capacity is expected to reach 16 billion cubic meters per year. Around six billion cubic meters will be delivered to Turkey and the rest to Europe. In future, the pipeline’s capacity can be expanded to 31 billion cubic meters of gas per year. Currently the share distribution in the TANAP project as follows: SOCAR (operator) – 68 percent , Botas (Turkish state pipeline company) – 20 percent and BP – 12 percent.