Hungary says may buy Russian gas from TurkStream pipe extension

MOSCOW, Feb 4 (PRIME) -- Hungary is interested in receiving Russian natural gas on the southern border from the extension of the TurkStream gas pipeline, Hungarian ambassador to Russia Norbert Konkoi told reporters on Monday.

“Budapest is interested in diversification of gas routes,” he said. “We now receive gas from Russia from the east, but we are also interested in gas delivery from the south. Hungary is ready to take the gas if the Bulgarian and Serbian threads are constructed.”

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.

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