Natural gas supplies to Austria and Germany have started in January 2026, reported the press service of SOCAR, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan.

But it did not disclose the timeframe and amount of these deliveries.

On December 31, 2020, Azerbaijan began commercial natural gas supplies to Europe via the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), part of the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC).

The pipeline, designed for 25 years, is expected to export more than 10 billion cubic meters of Azerbaijani natural gas to the European market annually.

The SGC, which stretches from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to southern Italy through Georgia, Turkey, Greece and Albania, is an integrated pipeline system that also includes the South Caucasus and Trans-Anatolian natural gas pipelines. Its annual capacity is 16 billion cubic meters. The Shah Deniz natural gas field in Azerbaijan, with reserves of 1.2 trillion cubic meters, is considered the main source of raw materials for the SGC.