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Start-up delay for Turkey-Greece pipe



By Upstream staff 

The launch of the $300 million Turkey-Greece natural gas pipeline, which will bring gas from Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz gas field to Europe, has been delayed by a month until 15 September thanks to a construction glitch, a senior energy official said today.

The official told Reuters the pipeline across the Meric river along the Turkish-Greek border had not been completed as planned.

Ankara now plans to pump 70 million cubic metres of natural gas to Greece from the pipeline by the end of this year, versus 250 million cubic metres in original plans.

The 285 kilometre pipeline, which will link up with Italy, has an annual capacity of around 12 billion cubic metres and will hook up to a southern European network supplying gas to countries in the region.

"The plan had been to send the first gas on 15 August but Greece told Turkey that it could finish the construction of a 450-metre pipeline on the Meric river on 15 September," the official told Reuters.

The official reiterated that 685,000 cubic metres of gas would be sent through the line daily.


Tuesday, 31 July, 2007, 14:27 GMT  | last updated: Tuesday, 31 July, 2007, 14:27 GMT

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