Turkey welcomes dividing some of SOCAR’s share in the Trans-Anatolian gas project (TANAP) between BP, Statoil and Total, Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz said today, the Anadolu agency reported.
Yildiz said that foreign companies’ participation in implementing TANAP project helps to attract more foreign investments.
SOCAR partners on the project of developing the Azerbaijani gas condensate field Shah Deniz have voiced their preliminary intentions to acquire a stake in the Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline (TANAP) project, SOCAR head Rovnag Abdullayev told media today. He said the preliminary data is not official yet, but according to them, the partners intend to distribute a 29 per cent share in TANAP as follows: Statoil and BP – 12 per cent, Total – five per cent.
