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11.05.2017 10:34
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Russian energy giant Gazprom has expressed its interest in using the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) to link the second line of the TurkStream gas pipeline as it (TAP) already has an established route, John Roberts, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Center, told Anadolu Agency yesterday, as reported by the Daily Sabah.
Roberts hailed the TurkStream pipeline as one that will improve Turkey's energy security because it allows for greater flexibility in gas transit to the country.
The TurkStream pipeline is an export gas pipeline stretching across the Black Sea from Russia to Turkey and further to Turkey's border with neighboring countries.
Of the two lines in the project, one will supply gas to the Turkish market, while the other will carry gas to southern and southeastern Europe. Each line will have the throughput capacity of 15.75 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas per year.
Meanwhile, Gazprom on Sunday announced that construction work at the offshore section of the TurkStream gas pipeline project has commenced in the Black Sea near the Russian coast.
Regarding TurkStream Roberts said: "It [TurkStream] does not really change the balance of gas coming to Turkey. But, the completion of expansion work on the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum system and the development of the TANAP pipeline will be big elements for change," he said.
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