Azeri Ambassador Fakhraddin Gurbanov said negotiations were also under way on supplying Croatia with larger quantities of gas, and that Europe was being supplied with gas for some time now, but indirectly.
He said the Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline was a priority and that it would be good for supplying Croatia with gas, but that he could not go into details as this was still only being negotiated.
Nurrullayeva said Croatia's Varaždin County and the Azeri city Sheki had been cooperating since 2018.
Negotiations are under way to expand cooperation to the companies Naftalan in Ivanić-Grad and Turbine Works Karlovac (TTK), and for Ivanić-Grad and Karlovac to begin cooperation with two Azeri cities, she said, adding that the cities and companies will be proposed by this parliamentary group upon returning to Azerbaijan.
Nurrullayeva said she was confident that tomorrow's meeting in the Croatian parliament would be successful and benefit both countries.
The head of the Croatian-Azerbaijani parliamentary friendship group, MP Maja Grba Bujević, said there was plenty of room to expand the cooperation between the two countries, notably in energy, IT, culture and education.
She said Croatia would propose advancing the cooperation because Azerbaijan has natural oil and gas reserves.
Karlovac County head Martina Furdek Hajdin said she was willing to support better economic cooperation but by balancing trade, given that it stands at 80-20 in Azerbaijan's favour due its export of oil products to Croatia.
Croatia's exporters to Azerbaijan are the metal-working companies TTK, HS produkt, Croatiapumpe and Doking, she said, adding that cooperation can be advanced and Croatian exports increased. Azerbaijan is undergoing reconstruction and needs cooperation with the construction sector, she noted.
Last year Croatia's export to Azerbaijan totalled US$ 5.8 million, while importing $756.6 million.
In this year's first eight months, 1,343 Azerbaijani tourists visited Croatia, generating 5,550 nights.
Representatives of both parliamentary groups visited the TTK company, whose founder Ivan Mikšić said they cooperated with Azerbaijan in the export of turbines.
TTK also makes ship equipment and heat turbines for industry, notably shipbuilding and biomass cogeneration plants, and it is also successful in overhauling energy equipment and upgrading heat turbines with capacity up to 200 MW, he added.