"In terms of the number of countries to which we supply gas via pipelines, we are number one," said President Ilham Aliyev in an interview with Euronews, APA reports.
"We started our cooperation on the energy track with Europe some time ago. Especially it had a “speed-up” process after 2020, when we commissioned the Southern Gas Corridor, which today provides natural gas for 16 countries. In terms of the number of countries to which we supply gas via pipelines, we are number one. The number is growing. Ten members of the European Union are our clients. And in total, 12 countries from Europe are recipients of Azerbaijani gas. The number of countries is growing. The number of requests for us to start cooperation is growing.
And fortunately, we did our homework with the pipeline infrastructure and also with the upstream. So now the level of production is going up. Very soon, probably in the beginning of next month, we will report about the beginning of gas production from the new field. So it's a win-win situation. We need a premium market, which is Europe. And Europe needs an alternative source of supply, which is Azerbaijan. So we combined our efforts and established a very fruitful cooperation with the European Commission," the President noted.
