TURKSTREAM NATURAL GAS PIPELINE

Apart from TANAP (Trans-Anatolian Gas Pipeline), Turkey and Russia have reached an agreement on a gas pipeline project dubbed ‘Turkish Stream’, which will carry natural gas from Russia to Turkey and onwards to Europe by crossing under the Black Sea. This pipeline is expected to have an annual throughput of 63 billion cubic meters. The 909 kilometers of new pipeline will travel beneath the Black Sea linked to 177 miles of onshore pipes transporting gas from Russia via Turkey to Europe. Linking suppliers in the East and customers in the West, both projects will increase Europe’s energy security while bolstering Turkey's role as an international energy hub. TurkStream will be the first 32-inch sized system to be laid at depths of over 2 kilometres. Each of the two offshore pipelines is made up of thousands of individual pipe joints of 12 meters in length