(January 15 2021)
With a gradual increase in capacity since then, the total of Azerbaijani gas delivered to Turkey’s national company Botaş reached 8.4 bcm as of Dec. 31, 2020.
Düzyol said that the annual volume of natural gas delivered to Turkey would stay stable at 6 bcm per year until a new increase in capacity.
TANAP’s remaining 10 bcm annual capacity is allocated for European countries, including Bulgaria, Greece, Albania and Italy.
The Tabriz–Ankara pipeline is a 2,577-kilometre (1,601 mi) long natural gas pipeline, which runs from Tabriz in North-West Iran to Ankara in Turkey. (…)
The pipeline was commissioned on 26 July 2001.
These claims that Iran could rapidly step in to solve Europe’s woes are somewhat overstated. Although Iran does have massive natural gas reserves, the necessary pipeline and shipping infrastructure simply does not exist at present for exporting gas to Europe. To put it simply, there is no flip of a switch that can rapidly turn on supplies to Europe and help them cope with the winter ahead.