TIRANA (Albania), March 16 (SeeNews) – The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) consortium said it has laid end-to-end around 88% of pipes along the Southern Gas Corridor project in Albania and Greece.
Around 675 km out of 765 km of pipes has already been strung in Albania and Greece, the consortium said in a Twitter post late on Thursday.
In February, TAP managing director Luca Schieppati said the TAP project is two-thirds completed, including engineering, procurement and construction.
TAP will stretch from Greece's border with Turkey, via Albania and across the Adriatic Sea, to reach Italy's coast. It is part of the Southern Gas Corridor which also comprises the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP), which crosses Azerbaijan and Georgia, and the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP).
TAP shareholders 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%.