SOCAR Enerji Ticaret AŞ, a subsidiary of Azerbaijan’s state energy firm SOCAR, will supply Turkey with 4 million cubic metres (mcm) of natural gas per day in February.

Uzbekistan plans to increase the total electricity generating capacity to 27,400 MW and annual output to 110 billion kWh by 2026.

The contents of replies from the United States and NATO were not disclosed. But Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said Washington had made clear its “core principles” and could not accept any notion of a Russian veto on NATO membership and on the choice of alliance partners to be made by Ukraine.

In the end, the payment was met when the government’s State of Emergency Commission ordered the Ministry of Labour and Social Security to turn over to gas utility Moldovagaz $26 million originally intended to subsidise consumers' gas bills.

Equinor and SOCAR are cooperating in Azerbaijan on the exploration and production in the promising areas of Ashrafi-Dan Ulduzu-Aypara since May 2018.

The Central Asian country has been carrying out reforms in its energy sector to modernise ageing infrastructure and implement energy-efficient technologies, as well as to develop clean energy.