Turkish Stream
| Turkish Stream | |
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Map of Turkish Stream
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| Location | |
| Country | Russia Turkey |
| From | Russkaya compressor station near Anapa, Krasnodar Krai, Russia |
| Passes through |
Black Sea Kıyıköy, Turkey |
| To | Lüleburgaz, Kırklareli Province, Turkey |
| General information | |
| Type | natural gas |
| Partners | Gazprom |
| Contractors | Allseas |
| Construction started | 2017 |
| Expected | Q4 2019 |
| Technical information | |
| Length | 1,090 km (680 mi) |
| Maximum discharge | 31.5×109 m3/a (1.11×1012 cu ft/a) |
Turkish Stream or TurkStream (Turkish: TürkAkım or Türk Akımı) is a planned natural gas pipeline running from Russkaya compressor station near Anapa in the Southern Russian Krasnodar Region, across the Black Sea to Kıyıköy on the Turkish Thrace coast. Announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on 1 December 2014, during his state visit to Turkey, the proposal is designed to replace the cancelled South Stream project.
Following the shootdown of a Russian fighter jet by Turkey in November 2015, the project was temporarily halted. However, Russia–Turkey relations were restored in summer 2016 and the intergovernmental agreement for TurkStream was signed in October 2016.
The first direct gas pipeline between Russia and Turkey was the Blue Stream, commissioned in 2005. In 2009, Putin proposed a Blue Stream II line parallel to Blue Stream under the Black Sea. The project did not carry through and the South Stream project took the lead, until it was abandoned in 2014.
In November 2015, after the Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown, Russia's Economic Development Minister stated that the TurkStream gas pipeline project falls under the restrictive measures against Turkey. Talks on the project were unilaterally suspended by the Russian side. On 5 December 2015, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Turkey terminated the TurkStream project, on the grounds of Russian "non-compliance" with Turkish demands surrounding the project.
In late July 2016, following a reconciliation meeting in Moscow, both sides brought the project back on table. On 10 October 2016, Russia and Turkey officially signed the intergovernmental agreement in Istanbul, confirming commitment in the execution of the project. Contract with Allseas Group for laying the first line was signed on 8 December 2016 and for the second line on 20 February 2017. Laying of the first line in the Russian offshore section started on 7 May 2017.
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