Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLIX

No 7

13-February-2006

TURKEY/CASPIAN

Turkey And Russia Discuss Extension Of Blue Stream Pipeline To Ceyhan

Discussions in Ankara on 3 February between Turkeys Energy Minister Hilmi Guler and Alexei Miller, head of Russias gas monopoly Gazprom, included the possibility of extending the Blue Stream gas pipeline, which runs from southern Russia across the Black Sea to Samsun in Turkey, to Turkeys Mediterranean port of Ceyhan and possibly to Israel and Lebanon....