VOL. XLV

No 43

28-October-2002

TURKEY

Blue Stream Pipeline Complete, But Turkey Defers Large Gas Shipments

The partners in the $3.2bn Blue Stream gas pipeline celebrated the completion of the project on 20 October at a ceremony in Samsun, Turkey, where the dual 360km undersea section of the pipeline comes ashore. Russias Gazprom and Italys Eni are equal partners in the Blue Stream Pipeline Company BV, which will operate the pipeline and begin shipping Russian natural gas to Turkey later this...