Gazprom fills both strings of TurkStream with gas

MOSCOW, Nov 19 (PRIME) -- Russian gas giant Gazprom has filled both strings of the TurkStream gas pipeline with gas, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.

“(Gazprom) is finishing pre-commissioning operations before the launch of the TurkStream gas pipeline, scheduled for the end of 2019. Both strings of the pipeline have been filled with gas from onshore facilities in Anapa to a receiving terminal in the settlement of Kiyikoy on the Turkish coast,” the company said.

“Russia’s Russkaya compressor facility and the landfall segment are ready for exploitation. Simultaneously, pre-commissioning works at the receiving terminal in Turkey are being finalized.”

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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