BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 31. The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) will make additional long-term capacity available by end-2025, Luca Schieppati, TAP managing director, said in an exclusive interview with Trend ahead of the Baku Energy Week to be held from June 4 through June 6.
He noted that the 2021 Market Test was completed earlier in 2024 and it resulted in binding commitments, which will add another 1.2 bcm/a to the pipeline capacity by 31 December 2025.
“TAP is proceeding with the relevant works required for making the incremental capacity available to the market, in line with the commitments received. TAP will add one compressor unit (ca 15MW) to the existing compressor station in Kipoi (Alexandroupolis area), at the Greek border with Türkiye and upgrade the facilities there. The completion of these works will mark significant progress towards our goal of making the additional long-term capacity available by the end of 2025,” added Schieppati.
The Trans Adriatic Pipeline operates a natural gas transportation infrastructure from the Greek border with Türkiye to Southern Italy, enabling interested parties to market gas to several European countries.
TAP provides a direct and cost-effective transportation route as part of the Southern Gas Corridor, a 3,500 kilometre gas value chain stretching from the Caspian Sea to Europe.
Working to national and international safety and operational standards, TAP acts as a Transmission System Operator (TSO) and Independent Transmission Operator (ITO), providing capacity to shippers interested in transporting gas in a safe, reliable and efficient manner.
The pipeline starts near the Evros area of Kipoi at the Greek-Turkish border, where it is connected to the Trans Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP). It traverses northern Greece westwards to Ieropigi, Kastoria at the Greek-Albanian border. Crossing Albania and the Adriatic Sea, the pipeline comes ashore in Southern Italy to connect to the Italian gas network.
TAP’s routing facilitates gas supply to several South East European countries and its landfall in Italy provides multiple opportunities for further transportation of Caspian gas to the wider European markets.
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