“Today, we can speak with confidence that in the second half of the year 2017, construction of an offshore gas pipeline of Turkish Stream will be launched,” Gazprom CEO said.
The Energy Ministry of Russia, Alexander Novak, announced earlier that pipeline building would start in 2017, while the construction completion date, both of onshore and offshore sections, were scheduled for the end of the year 2019.
We should remind you that on October 10, 2016, Russia and Turkey signed an intergovernmental agreement on Turkish Stream project.