Gazprom,Turkey review projected pipeline route

Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Taner Yildiz, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of the Turkish Republic met in Turkey last week.

Both parties addressed the progress of the project for constructing the gas pipeline from Russia to Turkey via the Black Sea and made a flying inspection of the projected route of the onshore gas pipeline, Gazprom informed in a statement.

The parties defined the key reference points of the route and technical solutions for the gas pipeline in Turkey. In particular, the meeting chose the landfall location, near Kayakoy village, the gas delivery point for Turkish consumers in Luleburgaz and a border crossing between Turkey and Greece in Epsila. The gas pipeline length will total 180 kilometers.

In the near future, a permit is to be obtained for conducting FEED operations for the new Turkish offshore section.

The growing demand for natural gas in the Istanbul district will be taken into account in the gas pipeline design; therefore, the volume of gas to be delivered to the border between Turkey and Greece was specified and estimated at 47 billion cubic meters. The capacity of the offshore gas pipeline from Russia to Turkey will amount to 63 billion cubic meters a year, with the first string to be completed by December 2016.

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