Trans-Anatolian Gas Pipeline

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Trans-Anatolian Gas Pipeline is an operating natural gas pipeline.

Location

The pipeline runs from the Georgia/Turkey border to the Ipsala district of Edirne province along the Turkish-Greek border.

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Project Details

• Operator: SOCAR
• Parent Company: SOCAR 58%; BOTAŞ 30%; BP 12%
• Current capacity: 60 billion cubic meters per year
• Proposed capacity:
• Length: 1,144 miles / 1,841 kilometers
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 2018

Background

The Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP; Trans-Anadolu Doğalgaz Boru Hattı) is a natural gas pipeline from Azerbaijan through Georgia and Turkey to Europe. It will be a central part of the Southern Gas Corridor, which will connect the giant Shah Deniz gas field in Azerbaijan to Europe through the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP), TANAP and the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP).

This project is of strategic importance for both Azerbaijan and Turkey. It will allow the first Azerbaijani gas exports to Europe, beyond Turkey. It will also strengthen the role of Turkey as a regional energy hub.

Construction of the pipeline began in March 2015 and is expected to be completed in 2018.

The project was announced on 17 November 2011 at the Third Black Sea Energy and Economic Forum in Istanbul. On 26 December 2011, Turkey and Azerbaijan signed a memorandum of understanding establishing a consortium to build and operate the pipeline.

In spring 2012, the process of conducting the technical-economic feasibility study was launched. On 26 June 2012, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and then Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed a binding intergovernmental agreement on the pipeline. Also, the agreement was signed by Azerbaijani Industry and Energy Minister Natig Aliyev and Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz. The initial agreement on organizational issues between BOTAŞ and SOCAR was signed by Natig Aliyev and Taner Yildiz, SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev and BOTAŞ Deputy Director General Mehmet Konuk. The Host Country Agreement was signed by Taner Yildiz and SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev on behalf of TANAP between the Turkish Government and the TANAP Company. On March 17, 2015, both Erdogan and Aliyev met with Giorgi Margvelashvili, President of Georgia, in the city of Kars in Eastern Turkey to formally lay the foundations for the pipeline and marking the work as started.

In June 2018 the pipeline was commissioned.

Description

The pipeline is expected to cost US$10–11 billion. $800 million of funding has been approved by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for TANAP. Overall, TANAP will receieve around $3.7 billion in loans.

The planned capacity of the pipeline would be 16 billion cubic meters (570 billion cubic feet) of natural gas per year in the initial stage and would be increased later up to 23 billion cubic meters (810 billion cubic feet) by 2023, 31 billion cubic meters (1.1 trillion cubic feet) by 2026, and at the final stage 60 billion cubic meters (2.1 trillion cubic feet) to be able to transport additional gas supplies from Azerbaijan and, if the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline is built, from Turkmenistan. Its capacity would be increased by adding parallel loops and compressor stations according to the increase of available supplies. It is not decided yet if the pipeline will use 48-in or 56-in (1200-mm or 1400-mm) pipes. The maximum height of the pipeline is 2,700 meters above mean sea level.

Route

The TANAP pipeline passes through 20 provinces of Turkey - Ardahan, Kars, Erzurum, Erzincan, Bayburt, Gümüşhane, Giresun, Sivas, Yozgat, Kırşehir, Kırıkkale, Ankara, Eskişehir, Bilecik, Kütahya, Bursa, Balıkesir, Çanakkale, Tekirdağ and Edirne. The pipeline will start from Sangachal terminal in Azerbaijan and will be an expansion of the existing South Caucasus Pipeline (SCPx). From Erzurum it will continue to Eskishehir where it will unload 6 bcm of gas entitled to Turkish buyers. From the Turkey-Greece border it will connect with the proposed Trans Adriatic pipeline. The Turkish government said in March 2015 that a branch from Greece through Macedonia and Serbia to Hungary was also under consideration.

Shareholders

The TANAP will be operated by SOCAR, which currently holds a 58% stake in the project. Turkey's pipeline operator BOTAŞ own 30%, while BP acquired 12% of the project on March 13, 2015 . The TANAP project company will be headquartered in the Netherlands.

Initially, Azerbaijan had held an 80% stake, with Turkey owning the remainder. The Turkish stake was divided between the Turkish upstream company Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklığı (TPAO) (15%) and the Turkish pipeline operator BOTAŞ (5%). The international companies from the Shah Deniz consortium (BP, Statoil and Total) had an option to take up to 29% in TANAP. However, only BP exercised this option in December 2013. The Turkish government decided then that only BOTAŞ will hold a stake (20%) in TANAP. The Turkish pipeline operator acquired an additional 10% in May 2014. SOCAR's initial plan was to retain 51% and operatorship of the project. Several private Turkish companies had been interested in the remaining 7%, but this did not materialize.

Contractors

• Bechtel - Front End Engineering Design (FEED)
• WorleyParsons - Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management (EPCM)
• ABB - SCADA/Telecommunications System Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Works
• Yüksel inşaat - Construction, installation, personnel training, and testing
• Fernas Construction Company
• Akkord
• Tekfen
• SICIM - a construction company established in 1962 that offers all types of services related to the installation of pipelines and relevant ancillary facilities for the transmission and distribution of oil, gas and water on an international basis
• Punj Lloyd
• Limak

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