Gas,2 May 2022 00:31
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Georgia has gas pipeline connections with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia and Turkey, and oil connections with Azerbaijan and Turkey as well as a Black Sea oil terminal in Supsa. It imports natural gas from Azerbaijan and Russia, and transits gas from Russia to Armenia and from Azerbaijan to Turkey. Georgia’s oil product imports come from Azerbaijan and Russia, and it transits crude oil from Azerbaijan to Turkey.
The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline transports crude oil from Azerbaijan via Georgia to Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, and from there the oil is shipped by tanker to world markets. The BTC pipeline is 1 768 km long, with 443 km in Azerbaijan, 249 km in Georgia and 1 076 km in Turkey, and has been in operation since May 2005. It has ample free capacity and transports some Turkmen and Kazakh oil as well.
Operational since 1999, the Baku-Supsa Pipeline transports crude oil from offshore oilfields in the Caspian Sea (belonging to Azerbaijan) to Supsa, Georgia, on the Black Sea, where it continues to European markets via tankers. Of the pipeline’s 829 km, 375 km are in Georgia, and it has a capacity of 145 000 bbl/day.
The Karadaghi-Tbilisi gas interconnection is the main pipeline for Georgia for the import of gas from the Azeri gas field, by the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic. Its construction began in 1959, its diameter is 700 mm, and the Georgian section is 46 km long.
More gas imports reach Georgia from Azerbaijan by way of the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP), which transports gas from the Shah Deniz field parallel to the route of the BTC crude oil pipeline from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey. The SCP is 692 km long (442 km in Azerbaijan and 250 km in Georgia), 1 067 mm in diameter and has a capacity of 8 bcm.
In 2019, with completion of the second phase of Shah Deniz gas field development, SCP Expansion (SCPX), and Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline and Trans-Adriatic Pipeline construction, additional gas started flowing to Turkey and then to European countries for a total volume of 16 bcm. To increase system transmission capacity to 24 bcm, a parallel gas pipeline and additional compressor plants (61 MW capacity each) were constructed in Georgia under the SCPX and commissioned in 2018.
Underground gas storage is one of the facilities crucial to Georgia’s energy security, to provide seasonal balancing of supply and demand as well as compensate for possible supply interruptions. A 2016 feasibility study by the French company Geostock concludes that it is technically feasible to build an underground gas storage facility in the depleted Samgori Southern Arch oilfield and defines conditions for its commercial viability. The project is postponed for an unspecified time as the funding was diverted for the Covid-19 relief
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