Interview with Teodor Detchev Ph.D., associate professor at the Higher School of Security and Economics (HSSE) in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, head of the Laboratory on the Problems of the Black Sea and Caspian Region
How do you assess the level of Azerbaijani-Bulgarian relations?
Georgian Economy Minister Levan Davitashvili hopes that oil transportation through the Baku-Supsa pipeline will resume in 2024 after regular pumping was suspended in spring 2022, Trend reports referring to Georgian media.
Bulgaria hopes for gas supplies from Azerbaijan to its regions, a source at the Bulgarian ministry of energy told Trend.
President of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) Rovshan Najaf discussed issues of cooperation in the gas sector with Chairman of the Management Committee of Gazprom Alexei Miller, Trend reports via Gazprom.
Prospects of „green“ hydrogen production in the countries of Central Asia and the Caspian region will be discussed in Kazakhstan's Astana on September 17, Trend reports via „Globuc International Company“.
In January 2024, Azerbaijan increased gas production by 30 million cubic meters, said Minister of Energy of Azerbaijan Parviz Shahbazov on X, Trend reports.
"During this period, 2.3 billion cubic meters of gas were exported out of a total of 4.3 billion," he wrote.
In addition, the minister stressed that oil production for January amounted to 2.5 million tons, of which 2.1 million tons were sent for export.
The expansion of the Southern Gas Corridor, which supplies gas from the Caspian Sea region to Europe, was among the topics discussed at the Black Sea Security Conference organized by Caspian Policy Center, Trend reports.
The Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR, or Middle Corridor) is a green route, Kazakh National Economy Minister Alibek Kuantyrov said during the panel session "A New Dawn for Eurasia" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trend reports.
Vice Minister of Transport of Kazakhstan Satzhan Ablaliyev and Secretary General of the Permanent Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Commission TRACECA Aset Asavbayev have discussed the development of ferry services on the Caspian and Black Seas, Trend reports.
The parties also exchanged views on transportation issues in the field of road transport, including the problem of traffic congestion at the Sarpi and Red Bridge (Georgia) checkpoints.
Kazakhstan is working to develop its section of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR, or Middle Corridor), Trend reports.
According to official figures, 2.5 million tons of goods were transshipped through the seaports of Aktau and Kuryk along the TITR route in 11 months of 2023, a 107 percent increase over the previous year.
In 2023, Kazakh oil was carried along the Middle Corridor for the first time.
