Turkey proposes to transship Russian gas to EU

Turkey can act as a transit point for supplies Russian gas for the European market, Deputy Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar spoke at the Baku Energy Forum on May 3.

“Turkey wants to use the entire infrastructure for domestic production for domestic consumption and to transport gas to foreign markets, including Europe, to existing suppliers through pipelines of Azerbaijan, Russia and Iran”, RT quoted Mr. Bayraktar.

According to him, Turkey can also help transship energy resources from Turkmenistan, Iraq and the Mediterranean.

Russia is one of Turkey’s major gas suppliers, accounting for about half of its imports.

Gazprom, major Russian gas company, supplying fuel through the Turkish Stream and Blue Stream pipelines.

Turkish Stream gas pipeline to start 2020. This pipeline was built as an alternative to the South Stream pipeline (after Bulgaria abandoned the project in 2014).

Turkish Stream has a total capacity of 31.5 billion cubic meters. Part of this pipeline supplies Russian gas to Turkey, while the other part serves the southern and southeastern countries. Europe.