The TANAP project will create long-term and strong relations with the European countries similar to the relationship between Turkey and Azerbaijan, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
He made the remarks while speaking at the ceremony of signing a number of contracts on the TANAP and Shah Deniz-2 projects in Turkey’s Istanbul city on May 30.
“We are witnessing an important step in the implementation of the TANAP project. We assess this project not only in terms of development of trade and investment cooperation.
The implementation of the project for constructing the Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline will allow to create long-term and strong relations with the European countries similar to the relationship between Turkey and Azerbaijan,” the prime minister said.
The prime minister underscored that around six billion cubic meters of the gas to be produced under the Shah Deniz-2 project, will be sold to Turkey.
“It is planned to transport some 10 billion cubic meters of gas to Europe through Turkey via TANAP. And in the next stage, the natural gas produced from other fields of the Caspian Sea, will also be transported via this pipeline,” Erdogan stressed.
The TANAP project envisages transporting gas from the Shah Deniz field through Turkey up to the country’s border with Europe.
