VOL. XLIII

No. 06

7-February-2000

TURKEY

Gazprom Starts Work On Blue Stream

Russias state-owned gas monopoly Gazprom announced on 3 February that it had started work on the Blue Stream gas project with the ceremonial welding of the first pipes in Krasnodar in southern Russia. Russian and Turkish officials attended the ceremony, which marks the start of construction of a 1,250km pipeline that will span the Black Sea and eventually deliver 16bn cu ms of Russian natural gas to Turkey. The pipeline,...