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Work started on Turkey-Russia gas pipeline
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Special to World Tribune.com
MIDDLE EAST NEWSLINE
Tuesday, July 10, 2001
ANKARA Ñ Turkey has launched a $3.4 billion project to connect a
natural gas pipeline to Russia.
Officials said ground was broken last week for the construction of two
pipelines that would reach Russia through the Black Sea. The project for the
376 kilometer undersea pipeline is being led by the Italian company, Saipem.
The pipeline Ñ which incurred initial disapproval from the United
States Ñ
begins at the Turkish port of Samsun and will stretch to the Russian port of
Dzhubga. Executives said the first pipeline will be completed by the end of
the year. The second will be completed in 2002.
At that point, Russia will begin pumping gas to Turkey. Initial delivery
will be about three billion cubic meters a year.
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