Rovnag Abdullayev: “azerbaijan Has Turned From Gas Importer to Gas Exporter”

Vahab Rzayev; Azerbaijan’s energy security has been fully ensured in the recent years, the President of State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Rovnag Abdullayev said at the conference on implementation of State programs on socio-economic development of Azerbaijani regions.

Abdullayev said that as a result of work done on Shahdeniz project since 2006, the country introduced itself to the international market as a new alternative natural gas supplier. Signing of final investment decision on Shahdeniz 2 has been a new step in the development of this sphere. Timely implementation of large-scale projects allowed increasing gas production to 29.5 bcm from 5.5 bcm in 2004.

In 2013, 13.3 bcm of gas was delivered to the gas...