The Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) has come to play a key role in Europe’s energy security as it has delivered large volumes of natural gas from Azerbaijan to EU member states, Azeri Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov said on Tuesday. Early this decade, Azerbaijan started commercial gas supplies to the European Union via TAP, as the region sought to diversify energy supplies away from Russia even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Natural gas pumped from the giant Shah Deniz 2 field in the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan began flowing…