Drop of Light/Shutterstock Save for later Print Download Share LinkedIn Twitter Azerbaijan is confident it can meet the target of doubling natural gas sales to Europe to 20 billion cubic meters per year by 2027 as called for in a memorandum of understanding signed last year with the European Commission. “It’s absolutely realistic, otherwise we wouldn’t have signed it,” Azeri President Ilham Aliyev told a conference organized in Baku and Shusha this month by Azerbaijan's ADA University. After delivering 8 Bcm to Europe in 2021, Azerbaijan exceeded the 10 Bcm nameplate capacity of the European leg of its pipeline system last year by supplying a total of 11.4 Bcm. Further such increments would need to be achieved to reach the required goal, Aliyev said.
