First billion cubic meters of gas supplied via TurkStream
RELEASE
Release
Gazprom supplied its first billion cubic meters of gas via the TurkStream gas pipeline.
Of that amount, about 54 per cent went to the Turkish gas market and some 46 per cent was delivered to the Turkey-Bulgaria border.
Russkaya compressor station in Krasnodar Territory, starting point for feeding gas into TurkStream
Background
TurkStream is an export gas pipeline stretching from Russia to Turkey across the Black Sea. Its design capacity is 31.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year.
Commercial supplies via the gas pipeline commenced on January 1, 2020. On January 8, the presidents of Russia and Turkey held a grand opening ceremony for TurkStream in Istanbul.