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Azerbaijan boosts natural gas exports to Europe by 14%

09 August 2024 10:24 (UTC +04:00)

For 7 months, 29.5 bcm of natural gas was produced in the country, Ministry of Energy told APA-Economics.

7.7 bcm of gas production extracted from ACG, while 16.5 bcm from Shah Deniz. Absheron and SOCAR produced 0.9 bcm and 4.4 bcm of gas respectively. Gas was transported with an increase of namely 1.3 bcm compared to the relevant period of last year.

During this period, gas sales amounted to approximately 14.7 bcm, which was 5.7 % more compared to the same period previous year. In January-July this year, nearly 5.8 bcm of gas was sold to Türkiye, 7.5 bcm to Europe and 1.4 billion cubic meters to Georgia. It should be noted that, during this period 3.3 bcm of gas was exported to Türkiye through TANAP.