TurkStream 'Four-Fifths Complete' Offshore
Gazprom said September 5 its TurkStream pipeline project - consisting of two pipe 'strings' each of 15.75bn m3/yr - is progressing "according to schedule."
Deepwater pipelaying for the offshore part of the gas pipeline’s first string under the Black Sea has been completed (in April), it said, and construction had been begun on the second string in Russia’s exclusive economic zone (confirming earlier press reports). The Allseas-owned Pioneering Spirit vessel also started June 26 2018 to lay the second string in the Turkish exclusive economic zone, it added. As of September 5, Gazprom noted that over 1,520 km of the two strings are ready, equivalent to 81% of TurkStream's overall offshore length.
Landfall work near the Russian town of Anapa had also been completed and the continuing start-up and commissioning operations would be finished in 2018 together with landscaping, the company added, In addition, a receiving terminal is being constructed in the coastal area near the Turkish settlement of Kiyikoy.
Parameters were signed between Gazprom and Turkey's Botas in May 2018 for construction of the onshore section of TurkStream’s transit string in Turkey, for the purposes of supplying European consumers, Gazprom added. TurkStream string 1 commissioning remains on schedule for the end of 2019, it said. (Banner photo credit: Gazprom)