Company leaving TAP project named
Rovnag Abdullayev, President of State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has named the company, which is going to leave the European pipeline project Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), the last link of the Sothern Gas Corridor (SGC).
SOCAR President said in his last exclusive interview to private ANS TV channel: “Statoil has decided to fully leave TAP project and one company is ready to buy its share,” added Abdullayev.
“Several companies have already expressed interest in buying Statoil’s share. And I think it will be better if several companies buy this share,” said SOCAR President.
At the IV World Gas Congress on June 4, 2015 Carlo Malakarne, Executive Director of Italian Snam compay, said that Snam is going to buy 20% share in TAP project. Later he said that one of the companeis has expressed a desire to leave the project.—0—
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