Albania and Azerbaijan agreed to provide mutual support through the Intergovernmental Commission to result-oriented activities in all areas, Azerbaijani Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov said on X, Azernews reports.

“Within the first meeting of the Azerbaijan-Albania Intergovernmental Commission, we exchanged views on the priorities of our partnership agenda with Belinda Balluku, Deputy Prime Minister of Albania, Minister of Infrastructure and Energy. We agreed to provide mutual support through the Intergovernmental Commission to result-oriented activities in all areas related to the strategic course of the Heads of State aimed at strengthening friendly relations and bilateral cooperation,” he said.

“I met my colleague Parviz Shahbazov, ahead of the first meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission for Economic Cooperation, with which we have been cooperating closely for two years,” said Balluku in a Facebook post.

“We discussed the concrete projects that the two parties have agreed to develop, starting from the pilot project for the gasification of Korça, the regasification terminal in the Bay of Vlora, as well as the possibility of the participation of companies from both countries in renewable energy projects. I believe that in the next meeting, we will have concrete results to share,” said Balluku.

The commenced increase of the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline's (TAP) output power by 1.2 billion cubic meters and the implementation of gasification projects will make Albania the seventh European country to be supplied with Azerbaijani gas, Trend reports via Azerbaijan's Energy Ministry's statement following the first meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation between the two countries.

During a meeting with Balluku, the commission's co-chair, Minister Parviz Shahbazov, said that from 2026, annual supplies of Azerbaijani gas to Albania are expected in the amount of about 200 million cubic meters through the expanded TAP.

An informed source explained that these 200 million cubic meters per year are intended for a new heating station being built in Albania near TAP (built by a Greek company).

According to the source, the remaining one billion cubic meters of gas through the expanded TAP will be transited through Albania to the EU, and the Azerbaijan Gas Supply Company (gas from the Shah Deniz field) is responsible for this supply.

The statement said that during TAP construction across Albania, the country made investments worth 1.5 billion euros, while transit tax payments will amount to 285 million euros over 25 years, and social commitments - 14 million euros.

Both ministers discussed in Baku the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan's assistance in gasifying the Albanian city of Korca, as well as studying the prospects for using the Albanian gas storage facility in the area of Dumrea. "Azerbaijan-Albania relations have risen to a new level. Eight documents are planned to be discussed. In bilateral and European contexts, energy has been viewed as a strategically important direction in partnership," the statement pointed out.