TAP bids for piped gas route

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 07 February 2013 23:59 GMT

The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) group bidding for one of two proposed gas transport pipeline route from Turkey to Europe has started a conditional pre-qualification process, inviting steel producers to demonstrate their ability to supply about 400,000 tonnes of steel for the pipeline.

The planned 48-inch pipeline would run 800 kilometres from the Greece-Turkey border through Albania and across the Adriatic Sea to southern Italy.

The BP-led consortium developing Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz 2 gas field is to select route options proposed by TAP and its rival Nabucco West by June.

The field is to start producing 16 billion cubic metres per annum of gas in 2018, with almost two thirds of the volumes going to Europe via a pipeline through Georgia and the planned trans-Turkey Tanap line.

TAP project development manager Sigurd Hamre said the aim of…

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