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Gazprom boosts Blue Stream flows



By Upstream staff 

Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom has increased gas supplies to Turkey via the Blue Stream pipeline, which asked for more volumes due to a halt of a pipeline from Iran, a Gazprom executive said today.

Sergei Yemelyanov, deputy head of Gazprom's export arm Gazexport, told reporters the Russian company had increased supplies via Blue Stream, which travels under the Black Sea, to 30 million cubic metres per day from the previous 15 Mmcmd. Turkish media reported in late August that Kurdish separatist guerrillas had blown up a section of a pipeline in eastern Turkey carrying natural gas from Iran.

Gazprom increased supplies to Turkey by 24% in 2005 to 18 billion cubic metres, of which around 14 Bcm were supplies via the territories of Romania and Bulgaria, while the rest was shipped via the Blue Stream.

The Blue Stream was built in 2001 and its capacity of around 16 Bcm a year has been severely underused since then as Gazprom said Turkey had overestimated its gas demand growth.

The current flows of 30 Mmcmd means the Blue Stream reached around three quarters of its capacity for the first time.


Thursday, 14 September, 2006, 11:34 GMT  | last updated: Thursday, 14 September, 2006, 11:34 GMT

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