The Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR has expanded the number of importing countries of the gas supplied by it to 16. Its deliveries to Austria and Germany began.
"Starting from January 2026, Azerbaijani gas will be supplied to customers from Austria and Germany, among other countries," the company said in a statement.
The volume of deliveries and the duration of contracts are not disclosed.
Azerbaijani gas supplies to Europe began at the end of 2020 via the Southern Gas Corridor. The deliveries, designed for 25 years, provide for the annual export of more than 10 billion cubic meters of Azerbaijani gas to the European market. Azerbaijan has existing contracts with Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Slovakia, North Macedonia, Ukraine, Turkey, Georgia and Syria (deliveries began recently through Turkey).
Political analyst Ugur Mammadov, commenting on this news, said that the United States was not clearing the European market for Azerbaijan.
"Something tells me that this expansion will not end well. Did the Americans clear the European market of Russian hydrocarbons for Azerbaijan? The more actively Europe sits on the Azerbaijani fuel needle, the closer the day is when the United States will take up the defense of human rights flouted by the regime of Ilham Aliyev," the political scientist writes on the Ugur Mammadov telegram channel.
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