Azerbaijan expects to increase gas supplies to the EU through new fields
Azerbaijan plans to boost gas exports to the European Union by developing new fields and expanding pipeline capacity, stated the country's president Ilham Aliyev.
Aliyev spoke on 12 November at an energy roundtable during the European Political Community summit in Dublin. According to him, following the signing of an energy partnership memorandum with the EU in 2022, Azerbaijani gas supplies to the European Union increased from 8 billion to 13 billion cubic metres. Nearly half of the country's gas exports go to the EU.
The president noted that the route from Baku to Italy is already operating at full capacity. Azerbaijani gas is delivered through it to ten EU countries, including via interconnecting pipelines in Bulgaria. Aliyev stated that further growth in supplies requires expanding the route's capacity.
On the European section of the route, the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), capacity was increased from 10 billion to 11.2 billion cubic metres per year. The TAP operator confirmed that an additional 1.2 billion cubic metres of annual capacity will be available from the beginning of 2026. The new target export volume and the timeline for achieving it were not specified in the report on the speech.
