Turkish Stream
| Turkish Stream | |
|---|---|
 Map of Turkish Stream | |
| Location | |
| Country |
Russian Federation Turkey |
| From | Ruskaya compressor station |
| Passes through | Black Sea |
| To | undecided |
| General information | |
| Type | natural gas |
| Partners | Gazprom |
| Expected | Cancelled |
| Technical information | |
| Maximum discharge | 63×109 m3/a (2.2×1012 cu ft/a) |
The Turkish Stream was the working name of the proposed natural gas pipeline from the Russian Federation to Turkey across the Black Sea. The proposal was announced by Russian president Vladimir Putin on 1 December 2014, during his state visit to Turkey. The proposed pipeline was supposed to replace the earlier cancelled South Stream project.[1][2] According to Gazprom, the project did not have an official name.[3] In November 2015, Russia has suspended talks on the project.[4] In December 2015, Turkey formally abandoned the Turkish Stream project.[5]
History
The pipeline would have started at the Russkaya compressor station near Anapa. In February 2015, Gazprom chief Alexei Miller and Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz announced that the landing point in Turkey would be Kıyıköy, a village in the district of Vize in Kırklareli Province at northwestern Turkey.[6] According to Gazprom, pipe-laying works would have begun immediately when the landing point in Turkey was decided.[3] Two pipe-laying ships were already located in the Black Sea.[7]
The planned capacity of the pipeline was 63 billion cubic metres per annum (2.2 trillion cubic feet per annum) of natural gas.[3] Turkey would take about 14 billion cubic metres per annum (490 billion cubic feet per annum), the rest of the gas was planned to be exported to Europe.[7] However, there are concerns that there is not enough capacity to transport this amount from the Greek-Turkish border further to Europe.[8] According to the European Commissioner for Energy Maroš Šefčovič the proposed pipeline exceeds demands of possible customers.[9]
Negotiations between Russia and Turkey had not been finalized.[10]
The first direct gas pipeline between Russia and Turkey was the Blue Stream, commissioned in 2005, with an expansion plan later replaced later by the South Stream, itself abandoned in 2014. In 2009, Putin proposed a line parallel to Blue Stream 1 under the Black Sea, from Samsun to Ceyhan, and further to Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Cyprus.[11]
In November 2015, after the Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown, Russia's Economic Development Minister stated that the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project falls under the restrictive measures against Turkey.[4] On the 5th of December, 2015, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan formally terminated the Turkish Stream project, although claiming the decision was because of Russian "non-compliance" with Turkish demands surrounding the project. [12]
References
- ↑ "Putin:Russia Cannot Continue South Stream Construction in Current Situation". RIA Novosti. 2014-12-01. Retrieved 2014-12-01.
- ↑ "Russia drops South Stream gas pipeline plan". BBC News. 2014-12-01. Retrieved 2014-12-01.
- 1 2 3 "Launch date of Turkish Stream not to differ much from South Stream schedule - Gazprom". ITAR-TASS. 2015-01-16. Retrieved 2015-01-25.
- 1 2 Turkish Stream Falls Under Russia's Restrictive Measures Against Turkey
- ↑ "Turkey has shelved Turkish Stream gas pipeline project, says President Erdoğan". Hurriyet Daily News. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
- ↑ "Gazprom agrees on 180-km land section of Turkish Stream gas pipeline between Kiyikoy, Epsila". Interfax. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
- 1 2 Paul, Amanda (2015-01-24). "Game on for 'Turkish Stream'". Today's Zaman. Retrieved 2015-01-25.
- ↑ Panin, Alexander (2015-01-21). "Russia's New Turkish Stream Gas Strategy More Bark Than Bite". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2015-01-25.
- ↑ Panin, Alexander (2015-01-23). "EU Energy Chief Says Russia's Turkish Stream Gas Project Won't Work". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2015-01-25.
- ↑ Reed, Stanley; Arsu, Sebnem (21 January 2015). "Russia Presses Ahead With Plan for Gas Pipeline to Turkey". New York Times. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ↑ Socor, Vladimir (2009-08-11). "Gazprom, Turkey Revive and Reconfigure Blue Stream Two". Eurasia Daily Monitor (The Jamestown Foundation). Retrieved 2009-08-30.
- ↑ "Turkey has shelved Turkish Stream gas pipeline project, says President Erdoğan". Hurriyet Daily News. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
