Aliyev and Erdogan laid the foundation for the Igdir-Nakhichevan – Kommersant gas pipeline

The Presidents of Azerbaijan and Turkey, Ilham Aliyev and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, laid the foundation for the Igdir-Nakhichevan gas pipeline. About it reported press service of the President of Azerbaijan. The memorandum on this gas pipeline was signed on December 15, 2020.

Igdir is a city in eastern Turkey. From here to the Azerbaijani city of Nakhichevan along the Aras River along the highway is approximately 155 km. Ygdir is also the entry point of the distribution branch of the TANAP gas pipeline (stretches from Baku – through Georgia and Turkey – to Greece). The Igdir-Nakhichevan gas pipeline is planned as a branch of TANAP.

According to the Turkish Ministry of Energy, the Turkish part of the gas pipeline will be 85 km (from the city of Igdir to the city of Sadarak), gas supplies are planned in the amount of 500 million cubic meters per year, the throughput of the gas pipeline is 1.5 million cubic meters per day.

“The project will further deepen our energy partnership with Azerbaijan, and will also contribute to the security of Europe’s energy supply,”— reported today the press service of the President of Turkey.

Currently, the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is supplied with gas through swap supplies through Iran. On November 28, 2021, a trilateral agreement on such supplies was signed between Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan.

Alexandra Goroshilova