BAKU, Azerbaijan, Oct. 17
By Fidan Babayeva - Trend:
Azerbaijan exported 8.73 billion cubic meters of gas via the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum (BTE) pipeline from January through September 2020, which is 17.8 percent more compared to the same period of 2019, Trend reports citing a report of the State Statistical Committee.
At the same time, 40.6 percent of all gas was transported through the BTE from Azerbaijan, which is 3.4 percentage points more compared to a year earlier, said the report.
From January through July 2020, 21.5 billion cubic meters of gas were transported via the main pipelines of Azerbaijan, which is 8 percent more compared to the same period of 2019, the report added.
The length of the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline is over 700 kilometers. This gas pipeline transports gas produced at the Shah Deniz gas condensate field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea. Via this pipeline, Azerbaijan exports gas to Georgia and Turkey.
