TurkStream 41% Laid: Gazprom

Gazprom has now laid 373 km of the TurkStream gas pipeline along the Black Sea bed, it said October 18.

That is more than 40% of the total length of the sea section, which exceeds 900 km.

The offshore section runs from the Russkaya compressor station in the Anapa area of southern Russia along the bottom of the Black Sea to the Turkish coast. 

Next, a land transit line will be laid to the border of Turkey with neighbouring countries, which will be for TurkStream 2 to export gas beyond Turkey.

The capacity of the first and second lines of TurkStream will each have 15.75bn m³/yr capacity. The first is intended to replace the 14bn m³/yr TransBalkan line which runs from Ukraine south through Romania and Bulgaria. Gazprom already supplies gas directly to Turkey through Blue Stream, a 16bn m³/yr line which follows a different route under the Black Sea and which was completed in 2002.

TurkStream's route (Map credit: Gazprom)

Ilham Shaban