Davutoglu said TANAP
pipeline project, which will bring natural gas from Azerbaijan via
Turkey to Europe, will increase Turkey's strategic importance.
Speaking at a forum organized by the Caspian Strategy Institute, Davutoglu said Europe needs security in terms of energy and the Southern Gas Corridor Project is the best alternative.
"This project will affect the relations between producers and consumers in the global energy market and all the countires involved in this project will benefit from it," he said. "The Southern Gas Corridor Project is not only an energy corridor but also a peace corridor."
- TANAP to increase Turkey's strategic importance
Davutoglu said The Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline Project (TANAP), which will bring natural gas from Azerbaijan through Turkey to Europe, will increase Turkey's strategic importance.
Noting that Turkey is a ground for both energy transfer and energy consumption, he added, "It will also help decrease Turkey's budget deficit stemming from energy."
The TANAP and Trans-Adriatic gas pipeline projects will also make major contributions to the international economy and political peace, he expressed.
Initially proposed by the European Commission in 1994 and signed into agreement in 2012, the TANAP project has been billed as a "revolution in the energy history" of Eurasia. Its goal is to streamline a direct route for Caspian energy resources to European and Middle Eastern nations, according to the Istanbul-based Caspian Forum.
The pipeline, also dubbed 'the silk road of energy,' will help meet the energy needs of Europe, which currently imports almost 64 percent of its natural gas, This figure is due to rise to 80 percent by 2030.
- The forum, hosted by US journalist Charlie Rose, was attended by energy professionals and experts in the field and featured discussions on how the gas from Central Asia should reach consumers in Europe at appropriate market prices.
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Azerbaijan urges Armenia to withdraw, join in energy....
ReplyDeleteAzeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has urged that if Armenia withdraws from the Azeri territories that it occupies, it would contribute to the regional success of the Southern Gas Corridor.
Mammadyarov said the Southern Gas Corridor had strategic importance that would assure stability, sustainable development, security and peace in the region, during the Caspian Forum held in New York late Sept. 25, organized by HASEN, an Istanbul-based think tank that conducts research on the Caspian region.
“Armenia can be a part of regional success after withdrawing its troops from the occupied territories,” he said, according to the HASEN press release, adding that the Baku-Ceyhan and new pipeline projects “reinforced Azerbaijan’s sovereign independence.”
‘Peace corridor’
Speaking at the same event, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said the Southern Gas Corridor was expected to not just bring economic benefits, but also to “contribute to peace and security.” ......http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/azerbaijan-urges-armenia-to-withdraw-join-in-energy.aspx?pageID=238&nID=55223&NewsCatID=348
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Bulgaria Mulls Reduction of Russian Gas Imports....
ReplyDeleteMOSCOW, September 27 (RIA Novosti) – Bulgaria is planning to cut the share of Russian natural gas imports to 50 percent of its annual consumption within the next five years to ensure steady energy supply for the country’s growing economy, Bloomberg reported citing President Rosen Plevneliev.
Bulgaria, a EU member, currently satisfies 87 percent of its annual gas consumption with supplies from Russia.
“In five years’ time, we’d like to see at least 50 percent of the gas consumption in Bulgaria coming from different and diversified sources,” Plevneliev said in an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday.
The Bulgarian president cited a 2009 dispute between Russia and Ukraine that disrupted energy flows to Bulgaria for two weeks in order to justify the country’s need for greater independence from the Russian supplies.
Russia’s energy giant Gazprom and Bulgaria’s largest natural gas distribution company Bulgargaz signed in November last year a contract on the delivery of Russian gas to Bulgaria for the period until 2022......http://en.rian.ru/russia/20130927/183766089/Bulgaria-Mulls-Reduction-of-Russian-Gas-Imports.html
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