August 2017, Vol. 244, No. 8
Features
Trans-Adriatic Gas Pipeline Expected to Fill Big Void
Construction recently passed the one-year mark on the $45 billion mega-project, Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), designed to fill the gap in Europe’s Southern Gas Corridor project to access gas from fields in Central Asia. The pipeline is one of Europe’s largest and most strategic natural gas infrastructure projects. It will connect customers in Italy and the Balkans with the Azeri gas fields of the Caspian Sea. When completed, TAP will transport natural gas from the giant Shah Deniz II field in Azerbaijan to Europe through a 544-mile (878-km) pipeline, connecting with the Trans Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) at the Turkish-Greek border at Kipoi. Then it will cross Greece and Albania and the Ad

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