Alik Bakhshi
There will be a Trans-Caspian gas pipeline!
Political circumstances related to Russian gas blackmail and the war in Ukraine led to the EU boycott of Russian gas, which increased the relevance of the Southern Gas Corridor, through which natural gas from Azerbaijan is transported through Georgia and Turkey to Europe. Such gas-producing countries of the Caspian basin as Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan may also join this route if the Trans-Caspian pipeline from Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan is laid along the bottom of the Caspian Sea. There were serious opponents against the implementation of this project. This is primarily Russia, which supplied gas to Europe and naturally did not want a competitor to appear.(1) For the same reason, gas-rich Iran as a potential supplier was also an enemy. One must think that the extra gas pipeline did not bode well for China, which buys Turkmen gas, because it deprived it of the opportunity to be the only buyer. These countries include Armenia, a state formation artificially created with the help of Russia on Azerbaijani soil (Khanate of Yerevan), and the eternal enemy of the Turks. (2) By the way, in 2020 Armenia tried to fire at the Baku-Tbilisi gas pipeline from occupied Karabakh, what else had a greater impact on Baku’s determination to expel the Armenian occupiers from the territory of Azerbaijan.
However, the changed political and economic situation has affected the revision of the attitude of Russia and Iran to the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline. The fact is that Russia, having lost the opportunity to supply gas directly to Europe, now has hope, uncontrolled by the EU, but with the knowledge of Azerbaijan, to supplement the gas pipeline with its own gas. Moreover, Iran is not averse to selling its gas to Europe through Azerbaijan and Turkey, for which the EU has already received consent. (3) Naturally, under such conditions, neither Russia nor Iran has any reason to hinder the construction of the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline.
Thus, from an economic point of view, many countries of the Caspian region, the Caucasus and Europe as a whole are interested in the construction of the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline.
1. Trans-Caspian gas pipeline or the Third World War.
https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/18362.html 2. Great Armenia or Great Lie.
https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/101164.html 3. Gas indulgence for Iran.
https://www.sb.by/articles/gazovaya-indulgentsiya-dlya-irana.html?ysclid=lw93exvr1o102314990 05/16/2024
