Gazprom Management is set to construct a new gas pipeline into Turkey.
At a meeting with the Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources yesterday chairman Alexey Miller of the firm to consider a preliminary feasibility study on the venture that will connect the Black Sea with Turkey.
The four strings will have a capacity of 63 billion cubic metres a year.
660 kilometres of the pipeline will be laid within the old corridor of South Stream with 250 kilometres within a new corridor towards the European part of Turkey.
Gazprom will be responsible will be responsibly for constructing the offshore section of the project and Turkish gas transportation facilities will be built jointly.
Mr Miller said: “The joint construction of the gas transportation facilities within such an important project would create the strategic infrastructure partnership between Gazprom and Botas.
“Our priorities are to study the route’s options in Turkey, to define the location of the landfall facilities, gas delivery points for Turkish consumers and border crossings between Turkey and Greece.”
The first gas is expected to arrive in December 2016.
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