BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 16. Italy purchased natural gas worth 486 051 445 euros from Azerbaijan via the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) in March 2023, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, told Trend.
Azerbaijan’s natural gas exports to Italy were close to 473 million cubic meters in March, according to Eurostat.
Italy imported more than 1.850 billion cubic meters of Azerbaijani gas worth 1.77 billion euros from January through March 2023.
In the first quarter of 2023, gas production in Azerbaijan increased by three percent, to 12.2 billion cubic meters. The country exported over half, or 6.5 billion cubic meters, of natural gas to foreign markets.
From January through March 2023, Azerbaijan exported natural gas to Europe (2.9 billion cubic meters), Türkiye (2.7 billion cubic meters), and Georgia (0.9 billion cubic meters). During the reporting period, 1,4 billion cubic meters of gas were exported to Türkiye via the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline.