Last week Azerbaijani Energy Minister Natig Aliyev said while receiving US Ambassado to Azerbaijan Robert Sekuta that construction of Trans Adriatic pipeline (TAP) is scheduled for March 2016.
Several days later at the session of the Coordination Council of the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC) on February 29, 2016 Azerbaijani Minister said that the issues of the TAP funding will be solved in April 2016. He added later: “It will happen on April 28.” But he did not specify what is going to happen on that day.
Minister said that crisis at the world market does not create problems for the projects. “We do not have problems with funding of the Shah Deniz-2 project and SOCAR’s share in the projects. Our partners also have no difficulties.”
“SOCAR has shares both in TANAP and TAP. Major part of TANAP funding has been already settled. Whatever is happening at the market, the projects will be implemented,” Aliyev said.
RIA Novosti reported quoting Yan Bradshow, TAP Managing Director, said that TAP construction will begin in mid-2016 in the Greek city of Saloniki. He added that construction of TAP, which is a part of the SGC, will begin approximately at the end of May- early June 2016. “As far as access is concerned, Greece has created required conditions to begin the project,” he added.—0—
Economics
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Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR signed a memorandum of cooperation with North Macedonian company ECM on Thursday, during a visit to Baku by North Macedonia's President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, an informed source told Turan.
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Discussions were held in Baku within the framework of the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, focusing on the "Decarbonization and Climate Adaptation of the Cotton-to-Clothing Value Chain." Among other topics, the state of cotton farming in Azerbaijan was also addressed.
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Azerbaijan has attracted significant interest from companies in both developing and developed countries, as well as from state and private sector representatives of at least 10 nations, regarding participation as shareholders in the Climate Finance Action Fund (CFAF), which has a total budget of $1 billion. The CFAF is one of Azerbaijan’s 14 key initiatives unveiled at COP29, Yalchin Rafiev, Azerbaijan's chief negotiator at COP29 and Deputy Foreign Minister, said at a press conference on Tuesday.
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The Azerbaijani government has proposed that the OPEC Fund participate in financing several renewable energy projects, including offshore wind energy development, green energy corridor initiatives, and a 1 GW project planned by SOCAR in partnership with the UAE-based company Masdar.
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