MOSCOW: The TurkStream pipeline, due to supply Russian gas to Turkey via the Black Sea from next year, is already 80 percent complete, the CEO of the Russian gas giant Gazprom said Thursday.

“The realisation of large-scale Gazprom export projects to Europe are continuing,” CEO Alexei Miller said in comments carried by Russian news agencies.

“There is the Turkish Stream gas pipeline: 1,500 kilometres (930 miles) of pipe, around 80 per cent of the line” has been assembled, he said during a meeting.

Over the first eight months of the year, Gazprom exported over 133 billion cubic metres of gas to Turkey and the EU - up 5.6pc on the same period of the previous year, Miller said.

Published in Dawn, August 31st, 2018