The Southern Gas Corridor. The Azerbaijani-Turkish project becomes part of the game between Russia and the EU.

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Series Details No.53 (August 2015)
Publication Date 20/08/2015
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The Southern Gas Corridor is a system of three complementary gas pipeline projects controlled by Azerbaijan and Turkey, each at a different stage of implementation. The crisis in EU-Russia relations over Ukraine has made the two players interested in the Southern Gas Corridor once again. Brussels views it as an opportunity for a genuine diversification of gas supplies and a way to reinforce its position against Russia. In turn, Moscow’s proposal for Turkey and Greece to join the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project changes the energy map of the regional projects, which indirectly affects the Southern Gas Corridor. This has raised concern in Azerbaijan, which has been making efforts to manoeuvre between the interests of Moscow and Brussels.

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ESO: Background information: The quest for natural gas pipelines: EU and Eastern Partner energy policies: Security versus transit benefits http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-quest-for-natural-gas-pipelines-eu-and-eastern-partner-energy-policies-security-versus-transit-benefits/

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