ITGI out of running for Shah Deniz

In the pipeline: Consortium narrows options for Shah Deniz transportation to Europe

The BP-led consortium developing the Shah Deniz gas field offshore Azerbaijan has eliminated the Interconnector Turkey-Greece-Italy (ITGI) pipeline option.

Spokesman for the British supermajor Toby Odone confirmed to Upstream that ITGI was no longer under consideration from the alternative routes being considered for bringing the gas to Europe.

This means that another, similar project called the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) will be negotiating exclusively to carry the gas between the Caspian and Italy.

Shah Deniz partner Statoil and Swiss EGL and E.ON Ruhrgas are behind the TAP, which would run from Greece to Italy via Albania and across the Adriatic Sea.

Its 520-kilometre route is much shorter than that proposed by ITGI, which was…

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