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Mr Aliyev also thanked Petro Poroshenko for creating favorable conditions for the opening of the Trade House of Azerbaijan in Kyiv.
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev during the working visit to Turkey of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko invited Ukraine to join the Southern Gas Corridor energy project, the Ukrainian presidential press service reported.
Also, the presidents discussed the issue of expanding relations in the trilateral Ukraine-Azerbaijan-Turkey format and exchanged views on the preparation for the 6th meeting of the Council of Presidents of Ukraine and Azerbaijan.
On May 29, 2018, Aliyev launched the first string of the Southern Gas Corridor project, aimed at transporting natural gas from Azerbaijan to the EU.
The 970km long Southern Gas Corridor or the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) will stretch from Komotini in Greece and will extend to Puglia in Italy via Albania. It will be used to transport gas from the Shah Deniz II field in the Caspian Sea.
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Another two adjacent pipeline projects - Transanatolian gas pipeline (TANAP), which passes through Turkey, and the South Caucasus pipeline (SCP) passing through Azerbaijan and Georgia, will complete the Southern Gas Corridor.
Project cost is estimated at over $40 billion.
Deliveries of Azerbaijani gas to Europe are expected by 2020 in the amount of 10 billion cubic meters. In addition, 6 billion cubic meters of Azerbaijani gas will be supplied to the western regions.