World Bulletin: Turkey, Russia's Gazprom survey new pipeline route

Turkey's energy minister and Russia’s Gazprom chief took a helicopter ride over the Black Sea to survey a possible route of the “Turkish Stream” pipeline Saturday.

Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz and Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee Alexey Miller took off from Istanbul and flew along the Black Sea coast till Ipsala, the Turkish-Greek border to evaluate the possible entry points of the proposed pipeline.

The flight lasted four hours. The two officials made it back to Istanbul by using a route over the Marmara Sea coastline.

Yıldız said that a research committee would file a report about the first assessments of the pipeline soon, possibly by next Tuesday. The committee would consist of Gazprom members and Turkey's Petroleum Pipeline Corporation, BOTAS.

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