Azerbaijani gas will go to Austria and Hungary, SOCAR says

The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has announced that the Azerbaijani gas, which, it was announced yesterday, will be transportated through the Trans-Adriatic pipeline, may in future get to the markets of Austria and Hungary (the Nabucco West project suggested that gas will be delivered there).

The IGB interconnector will be the first link of the transportation system for delivering Azerbaijani gas to Austria and Hungary. It will connect the Greek gas pipeline system with the Bulgarian one. It was said that if volumes of gas deliveries exceed the power of IGB, construction of one more interconnector is not excluded. "Bulgaria will receive gas at the first stage. Then gas can be delivered to other Balkan countries. In due course, when volumes exceed the capacity of the TAP, the fuel can be delivered to Hungary and Austria," Trend quotes a high-ranking representative of SOCAR.

In that case, the Ionian Adriatic gas pipeline can be used for transporting Azerbaijani gas to Albania and Montenegro, and later to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia. However, this will happen only when the volume of 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas supplied to Greece, Italy and Bulgaria presumed for the first phase is surpassed.