(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 22. Moldova's Prime
Minister Natalia Gavrilița will visit Azerbaijan to discuss gas
supply, Trend reports via Moldovan media.
“The prime minister will be in Baku to attend the meeting of
Moldova-Azerbaijan Intergovernmental Commission in Trade and
Economic Cooperation from October 10 through October 12. Natural
gas import from Azerbaijan is among the topics to be discussed
during the visit,” press service of Moldovan government said.
Andrei Spinu, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of
Infrastructure and Regional Development of the Republic of Moldova
earlier said that his country consumes around 3 billion cubic
meters of gas per year.
“We would like to sign a contract to get gas in a range between
1 and 3 billion cubic meters per year,” noted Spinu.
The deputy prime minister noted that Moldova has reserves of 35
million cubic meters of gas, in winter this volume will last for a
maximum of ten days.
The supply of Azerbaijani gas to Europe through the Southern Gas
Corridor began on December 31, 2020. Azerbaijan exported its
natural gas to the European market through pipelines for the first
time in history.
The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) which is the European part of
the Southern Gas Corridor, annually supplies eight billion cubic
meters of gas to Italy and one billion cubic meters of gas to
Greece and Bulgaria each.
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