"Gazprom" called the approximate timing of the launch of the "Turkish stream"

The deadlines for the start of work of the Turkish Stream will be slightly different from those in which they planned to launch the South Stream. This was the official representative of Gazprom, Sergei Kupriyanov, said in an interview with Kommersant FM. “As soon as we agree on the exit point on the Turkish coast, the work will go quickly,” Kupriyanov assured.

At the same time, he stated that the implementation of the Turkish Stream would require a little more time than the South Stream, which was planned to be completed by the 2017 year. The representative of Gazprom noted that the name “Turkish Stream” has not yet been approved, but “the Turkish side would like to call it that.”

According to Kupriyanov, volumes of billions of cubic meters of gas that were originally planned to be transported via South Stream will be sent through Turkey to Turkey. “The route has changed, but it did not change according to our whims - this is a forced decision we took,” the Gazprom representative said. Earlier, the head of Naftogaz, Andrei Kobolev, called Russia's refusal of Ukrainian transit in favor of the Turkish Stream unprofitable. He predicted that the “rejection of a perfectly debugged and reliable system in favor of billions of dollars in investment” would fall on European business and households.

Russia announced its refusal to sell South Stream in early December 2014. This happened during the visit of Vladimir Putin to Turkey. The cancellation of the project was explained by the non-constructive position of the European Commission and the difficulties in building a gas pipeline in Bulgaria.

Source - RBC