Baku – Italy and Azerbaijan intend to cooperate in the fields of security, automation and communications under a new agreement. Leonardoand Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR signed an accord in Bakuon the sidelines of the third ministerial meeting of the Advisory Council of the Southern Gas Corridor. The agreement expects to see Leonardo helping to enhance the security of energy supplies, both physically and in the cyber domain, and use technology to improve the efficiency of SOCAR’s projects. This will include for the new Southern Corridor gas pipeline, the construction of which is led by SOCAR, which will bring over 20 billion cubic meters of Azerbaijani gas to Europe each year. The signing was attended by Carlo Calenda, Italy’s Minister of Economic Development, Giampaolo Cutillo, Italy’s Ambassador to Azerbaijan, and Mammad Ahmadzada, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Azerbaijan in Italy. (9colonne)
