Azerbaijan plans to double gas supplies to the European Union (EU) market, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said at the ceremony of signing of Memorandum of Understanding for encouraging cooperation among Bulgartransgaz (Bulgaria), Transgaz (Romania), FGSZ (Hungary), EURSTREAM (Slovakia), and the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) in Sofia (Bulgaria) on April 25, APA reports.
According to the President, gas exports to the EU will make up about half of Azerbaijan's total gas exports of this year.