Project Profile
Value: US$10-$11 billion
Location: Azerbaijan to Turkey to Europe
Length: 1,850 km (1,150 mile)
Capacity: 16 billion cubic metres (570 billion cubic feet) of natural gas per year
Start-up year: 2018
The Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline is a proposed natural gas pipeline from Azerbaijan through Turkey to Europe. If constructed, it would transport gas from the second stage of the Shah Deniz gas field. The pipeline is planned to be completed by 2017. The planned capacity of the pipeline would be 16 billion cubic metres (570 billion cubic feet) of natural gas per year at initial stage and would be increased later up to 24 billion cubic metres (850 billion cubic feet). The pipeline will run from Georgian–Turkish border to Turkish European border. The exact route of the pipeline is not clear. However, one branch from Turkey would go to Greece and the other to Bulgaria.
The project was announced on 17 November 2011 at the Third Black Sea Energy and Economic Forum in Istanbul. On 26 December 2011, Turkey and Azerbaijan signed a memorandum of understanding establishing a consortium to build and operate the pipeline. The preliminary cost of the pipeline has been estimated at US$10-$11 billion. The TANAP project was inaugurated in 2015 and the 1,850 km (1,150 mile) pipeline\'s construction is expected to be completed by the end of 2018 and start deliveries of gas from Shah Deniz II to Europe in 2019. SOCAR holds a 58 percent stake in TANAP, while Turkish pipeline firm Botas raised its stake to 30 percent from 20 percent in 2014.
Operators:
Socar: Operator with 58% interest
BOTAS: 30% interest
BP: 12% interest
Contractors:
WorleyParsons: A five year contract for the supply of Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) services.
GE Oil & Gas: To provide high-end turbomachinery for Phase 1.
Intertek: Two-year contract to provide quality assurance, technical inspection and pipe testing services during manufacture of the line pipe in Turkey. (April 2015)
ABB: Contract for the 1,850-km Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) to deliver the control infrastructure to contribute to safe, secure and reliable operation of the pipeline throughout its lifetime. ABB signed the contract with TANAP and the order is booked in the fourth quarter. ABB will deliver the control system, telecommunications, pipeline monitoring, security systems including fiber-optic cables to transmit data along the pipelines. The pipeline will be controlled and automated by ABB’s world-leading System 800xA process automation system. The software solutions will integrate the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and the telecommunications that control the gas flows, detect leakages or intrusions and make closed circuit television (CCTV) coverage available for safety and security purposes. (December 2015)
SapuraKencana Petroleum: EPCI of offshore pipelines and fibre optic cables for TANAP, located offshore Dardanelles Strait in the Sea of Marmara. (August, 2016)