The European Commission approved the construction of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), acknowledging its relevant European legislation. This is stated in the European Commission report, published on Thursday
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Trans-Adriatic gas pipeline is part of the so-called “Southern corridor”, combining several pipeline projects to supply from the Caspian region to Europe bypassing Russia. In particular, we are talking about the Azerbaijani gas from Shah Deniz-2 (Azerbaijan plans to supply Europe with 10 billion cubic meters). TAP will be the last link in the chain of pipes of Baku – Tbilisi – Erzurum (South Caucasian gas pipeline) and the Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline (TANAP), which will pass through Turkey. TAP should be laid from the Turkish-Greek border through Albania and the Adriatic Sea to southern Italy. TAP is estimated at EUR 5.6 billion.
The deputy chairman of the European Commission Maroš Šefčovič in connection with the approval of the project said that this is an important step for the implementation of the “Southern Gas Corridor” in general, and the UGK is a key project for energy European security. The EC expects that deliveries will begin in 2020 and 10 billion Azerbaijani cubic meters of gas will cover about 17% of consumption in Italy.
The deputy head of the National Energy Security Fund Alexei Grivach indicates that fundamentally TAP does not differ from the Russian gas pipeline project “North Stream – 2 “and” South stream “project, which Russia was forced to withdraw under pressure from the European Commission
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The fact that the “South stream”, the EC opinion, did not correspond to the EU Third energy package, which prohibits the parties to engage in transportation of gas gas market. By the way, at the present time, a number of European countries need to carefully check the plan and “Nord Stream – 2».
At the same time the implementation of TAP engaged company Trans Adriatic Pipeline, whose largest shareholder (20%) are these market participants, as the British BP and Azeri SOCAR (another 20% of the project belongs to the Italian Snam, 19% – the Belgian the Fluxus, 16% – the Spanish Enagas and 5% – Swiss Axpo)
But the TAP, as opposed to the “South stream”, at the request of shareholders was derived from the application of the rules of the Third Energy Package. Russia, incidentally, has repeatedly requested the same for the UP, but the Commission does not go for it.
«The difference is only in the projects that the TAP gas is Azerbaijan, and UP and SP-2 – Russian – Grivach notes. – You could call it discrimination on gas origin, although the part of Europe rather strange to discriminate against its main energy partner, which is the Russian »
« South Stream “was closed because. “Gazprom” took investreshenie, without asking permission from Brussels, “- said the head of East European Gas Analysis Mikhail Korchemkin
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Europe has repeatedly said that he feared the growth of dependence on Russia. The TAP, the European Commission notes in its communication, as a new route of gas supplies will lead to a significant increase in competition. By the way, the project is designed for a special tax regime for 25 years (floating tax rate). In the EC view, the overall positive effect on the level of competition and energy security of the project outweigh the possible risks associated with obtaining TAP’s competitive advantages due to tax.
Speaking of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline, compared with the Russian, there is still the question of cost . Usually complaints about projects prices are presented as a time to “Gazprom”, many people think that the cost of gas pipelines are clearly too high.
«TAP cost not much less than the cost of the first” Nord Stream ” (EUR 8.8 billion) – indicates Alexey Grivach. – However, the power from the Trans-Adriatic pipe 10 billion cubic meters, while the SP-1 -. 55 billion cubic meters »
Although the TAP project involves the ability to output doubling in the long term, it will require new cost
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