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Trans Adriatic Pipeline is complete

Trans Adriatic Pipeline is complete
Trans Adriatic Pipeline is complete

According to the TAP Consortium, after almost four and a half years since the start of construction, the Trans Adriatic Pipeline is substantially complete. The TAP pipeline has been filled with natural gas from the Greek-Turkish border up to the pipeline receiving terminal in Southern Italy.

The pipeline will be ready to transport gas by mid-November 2020.

TAP's current operational capacity is 10 billion cubic metres annually. Its shareholding is comprised of BP (20%), SOCAR (20%), Snam (20%), Fluxys (19%), Enagás (16%) and Axpo (5%).

TAP which is an essential part of the Southern Gas Corridor project will transport 10 bcm of natural gas from the giant Shah Deniz II field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea to Europe. The pipeline connects with the Trans Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) at the Turkish-Greek border in Kipoi, crosses Greece and Albania and the Adriatic Sea, before coming ashore in Southern Italy.

The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) is an 878km-long pipeline, which runs for 550km across the entire territory of Northern Greece before entering Albania, where it runs onshore for 215km to arrive at the Adriatic coast (105 km) and reaches Southern Italy (8 km). 

The highest point of the pipeline rises up to 1,800m in Albania, and reaches its lowest point at 810m in the Adriatic Sea (-820 m).  

The ceremony to mark the start of the construction of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline was held on 17 May, 2016 in Thessaloniki, Greece. 

Further information on the TAP, TANAP and the Southern Gas Corridor is available here.

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