South Caucasus Pipeline

The South Caucasus Pipeline (English South Caucasus Pipeline - SCP, also Shah Deniz pipeline ) is a natural gas pipeline from Baku in Azerbaijan through Tbilisi in Georgia to Erzurum in Turkey. It is 690 km long and is pumping gas from the Caspian Sea to the Turkish gas transportation system.

Construction of the pipeline began in 2003, it was put into operation on 21 May 2006. It runs parallel to the Baku -Tbilisi -Ceyhan pipeline one meter below the ground and is initially for transporting annually up to seven billion cubic meters of gas works. Later the capacity will be doubled. The construction costs amounted to around one billion U.S. dollars.

The gas came mainly from the located 100 km south of Baku Shah Deniz gas field and other Azerbaijani gas fields under the Caspian Sea.

The pipeline is owned by a consortium, the SCP Owner Group ( German SCP- owner group ). Operator is the Anglo-American company BP.

2001, Azerbaijan and the Turkish gas transportation company Botas signed an agreement in which Botas committed from 2005 to import two billion cubic meters of gas. 2002, however, it became clear that the Turkish gas consumption decreased. Meanwhile, plans a multinational consortium led by Austrian OMV, the Nabucco pipeline, which connects directly to the SCP and the gas over 3,300 kilometers to Baumgarten an der March is to transport.

The SCP- owner

  • BP ( UK / USA) 25.5%
  • Statoil (Norway ) 25.5%
  • State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic ( SOCAR ) ( Azerbaijan) 10.0%
  • LukAgip ( Russia / Italy) 10.0%
  • TotalFinaElf (France) 10.0%
  • Oil Industries Engineering and Construction ( OIEC ) ( Iran) 10.0%
  • Türkiye Petrolleri ( TPAO ) (Turkey ) 9.0%
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