TurkStream Line 1 Completed

Today at the Black Sea coast of Turkey, the deep-water pipelay for Line 1 of the TurkStream ofshore as pipeline has been completed.

Today at the Black Sea coast of Turkey, the deep-water pipelay for Line 1 of the TurkStream ofshore as pipeline has been completed.

The avera e rate of the deep-water pipelay carried out by the pipelayin vessel Pioneerin Spirit was 4.3 km/day. The maximum pipelayin rate – 5.6 km/day – was reached twice in February 2018 In accordance with the schedule, the project is bein simultaneously implemented on shore in Russia and Turkey and in the Black Sea. . The receivin terminal is bein constructed near the settlement of Kiyiköy, Turkey. Upon completion of the landfall sections the works on the frst line will be completed Followin the works schedule, Pioneerin Spirit will continue the deep- water pipelay of Line 2 in the third quarter of 2018 ‘Implementation of the TurkStream Project carries forward successfully. We have reached an important milestone—the completion of Line 1 Progress is moving at a high rate. Since 7 May 2017, when we started the pipelaying campaign, the total of 1,161 km of pipes has been laid, which is 62% of the overall gas pipeline length. Needless to say, TurkStream will play a sugnificant role in strengthening energy security of Turkey and Europe’, said Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Management Committee of Gazprom PJSC.

Back round:

TurkStream is the project for a as pipeline stretchin across the Black Sea from Russia to Turkey and further to Turkey's border with nei hborin countries. The frst line of the as pipeline is intended for the Turkish consumers, while the second line is desi nated for the Southern and South- Eastern Europe. Each line will have the throu hput capacity of 15.75 billion cubic meters of as per year. South Stream Transport B.V., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gazprom PJSC, is responsible for the construction of the as pipeline's ofshore section that started on 7 May 2017 Turkey is Gazprom’s second lar est export market. Currently, Russian as is delivered to Turkey via the Blue Stream as pipeline and the Transbalkan Corridor. In 2017, Gazprom supplied the record 29 bcm of as to the Turkish market. This is 4.3 bcm (17.3%) more than in 2016 and 1.7 bcm (6.2%) more than in 2014, when the previous maximum of 27.3 bcm was achieved.

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