TIRANA (Albania), May 17 (SeeNews) – The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project is more than 87% completed, the consortium building the natural gas pipeline said on Friday.
After three year of work since the start of the project, 98% of pipes are in the ground in Greece, Albania and Italy, the TAP consortium said in a Twitter post.
“TAP provides a degree of energy security and diversity that the wider region hasn’t had before,” the consortium added.
In April, TAP said it has pulled ashore the first offshore pipelines in Albania for the 105 km section across the Adriatic Sea that will link the gas pipeline to Italy’s transmission network.
Connecting with the Trans Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) at Greece's border with Turkey, TAP will stretch across northern Greece, Albania and the Adriatic Sea before reaching southern Italy's coast where it will connect to the Italian natural gas network.
TAP is part of the Southern Gas Corridor, which also comprises the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) crossing Azerbaijan and Georgia, and TANAP.
The shareholders of TAP are BP, Azerbaijan’s state company Socar and Italy’s Snam with 20% each, Belgium’s Fluxys with 19%, Spain’s Enagas with 16% and Swiss-based Axpo with 5%.