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Coverage · South Caucasus

Energy system · partial record

Caspian energy export

The pipelines that carry Azerbaijani oil and gas westward across Georgia — the only significant Caspian export route avoiding both Russia and Iran — and the hydro complex Georgia itself runs on.

2 published markers 1 supply system

Assessed as of
2026-06
Last reviewed
2026-10-03

AssessmentHigh confidence

Context, not targeting. A system record names published markers and published operators and states dependencies at the level a published institution does. It carries no facility-level capacity, vulnerability, protection or repair detail; the schema has no field for any of it.

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Locator — land outline from Natural Earth 110m (public domain); 2 places this record names, at the coordinates the module already publishes. No routes, boundaries, control or activity are drawn.

What this system is

Azerbaijani oil and gas reach Turkish and European markets through pipelines crossing Georgia — the only significant Caspian export route avoiding both Russia and Iran. That geography is why Georgia's stability and the region's security arrangements matter well beyond the Caucasus.

The reason the region's security arrangements are a European energy file, and the fact that gives Georgia a weight in them beyond its size.

Confidence: High As of 2026-06Reviewed 2026-10-03

The system

Overview
The system is the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan oil line and the Southern Gas Corridor from Shah Deniz through Georgia and Türkiye to Europe, which the module's logistics record authors as production source → transit → corridor → chokepoint → entry port, and the Enguri dam and power complex that Georgia depends on. The transit-concentration chain carries what the corridor's concentration means: one route, one transit state, and a market in Europe that has repriced around it.
Current state · as of 2026-06
As the Southern Gas Corridor record last assessed it (June 2026, reviewed August 2026). No volume figure is stated here beyond what that record carries.
Commodities and outputs
Crude oil (Azerbaijan) · Natural gas (Shah Deniz / Southern Gas Corridor)

Nodes

The published markers that carry this system value, by the module’s own priority. A note is the system record’s; a marker without one is a member by its own tag.

Routes and operators

Supply systems running through it

  • Caspian energy export — the westward pipeline systemFuel imports · 5 nodes · 3 documented disruptions · named by the recordThe reason this small region has the attention of capitals that could not otherwise place it: oil and gas going west without crossing Russia or Iran.

Dependencies and constraints

Each marked documented (a published source states it) or assessed (Vigil infers it and says so). The two are never drawn the same way.

Transmission chains through this system

Each step carries its own basis grade — Confirmed, Plausible exposure, Unconfirmed scenario — and a chain can only weaken from left to right.

Watch questions bearing on it

Events at its nodes

13 Jul 2006Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline inaugurated

Economic exposures it underlies

ExposureCrude oilExposureNatural gas

Actors and arrangements

ProfileAzerbaijan

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Sensitivity: public-contextual Confidence: High Sources: bp Azerbaijan pipeline and project disclosures↗ · Eurasianet↗ · European Union institutional texts and Council conclusions · Reuters↗ Methodology Corrections

Assessed as of — 2026-06 Last reviewed — 2026-10-03