Gazprom exec says sees 2nd line of TurkStream ready for launch ‘19

ST.PETERSBURG, Oct 4 (PRIME) -- The second line of Russia’s TurkStream gas pipeline will be ready for launch until 2020, Dmitry Khandoga, deputy director of the foreign economic activities department of shareholder of the project Gazprom, said on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Gas Forum on Friday.

“Both lines will be ready until the end of the year and will be launched,” he said. “I mean, the pipeline will be ready to work. If the Bulgarians are ready to take gas, they will have it.”

The TurkStream pipeline was designed to consist of two branches with a length of over 900 kilometers and a capacity of 15.75 billion cubic meters each. One of them, finished in May 2018, is to carry Russian gas to Turkey, while the other is to transit gas to the European countries through Turkey and is to be finished in 2019. Bulgartransgaz plans to build an extension of TurkStream to Europe by the end of 2020.

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