Turkey, Azerbaijan reach agreement on natural gas pipeline

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ANKARA — Turkey has reported the imminent launch of a major natural
gas pipeline from Central Asia.

The TANAP project envisages the construction of a gas pipeline from Turkey's eastern border to the western border to transport gas from Azerbaijan's offshore Shah Deniz field to Europe through Turkey.
TANAP will be a gas pipeline from Turkey’s eastern border to the western border, transporting gas from Azerbaijan’s offshore Shah Deniz field to Europe through Turkey.

Prime Minister Recep Erdogan said Turkey has been preparing for the
launch of construction of the Azeri-Turkish Trans Anatolia Pipeline in 2013.

Erdogan said the governments in Azerbaijan and Turkey have approved the project, signed in June 2012.

“We took a new step with Azerbaijan,” Erdogan told a news conference on Feb. 6.

“The agreement for TANAP has been approved in the parliaments of both sides.”

Officials said the project, led by Turkey’s Botas and Azerbaijan’s
Socar, was meant to be completed by 2020 and cost $7 billion.

The officials said Azerbaijan would pump gas to Turkey, which would relay the fuel to Western Europe.

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