South Caucasus Pipeline

The 692 km (Azerbaijan – 443 km, Georgia – 249 km) 42-inch South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) was constructed for the transportation of Shah Deniz gas to Georgia-Türkiye border. The first gas reached the Türkiye border in 2006. To minimise its impact on the environment, SCP was constructed through the same corridor with the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline. The SCP’s annual transportation capacity is 7.41 bln m³.The expansion of the South Caucasus Pipeline is the second segment of the SGC. As part of the expansion, a 48-inch pipeline with a total length of 489 km (424 km in Azerbaijan, 63 km in Georgia, 2 km in the TANAP interconnection) and two new compressor stations were built in Georgia. The pipeline’s transportation capacity has been to a total of 24.04 bln m³. The annual capacity of the SCPX can be increased up to 34 bln m³. The pipeline was commissioned on the 30^th of June 2018.