President: "Macedonia intends to join TAP"

  30 April 2015    Read: 1182
President: "Macedonia intends to join TAP"
Macedonia intends to joint Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), President of the Republic of Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov told, who is on a visit to Baku.
“We have not received concrete proposal on joining TAP yet. However, we intend to join this project”, Ivanov said.

President added that he invited Azerbaijani counterpart to pay an official visit to Macedone: “Within the visit of President Ilham Aliyev, the issue on joining TAP will be discussed”.

TAP is designed for transportation of natural gas of Shahdeniz 2 to Western Europe through Greece and Albania. Annual capacity is 10 bcm of gas. However, it’s possible to increase the capacity to 20 bcm. This pipeline will start to transport Azerbaijani gas in 2019.

TAP shareholders are: BP – 20%, SOCAR – 20%, Statoil – 20%, Fluxys – 19%, Enagas – 16% and EGL-Axpo – 5%.

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