According to the head of “Gazprom”, the company will start construction of the offshore pipeline “Turkish stream ” in the second half of 2017.

Russian energy
giant Gazprom will start construction of the offshore pipeline “Turkish stream” in
the second half of 2017 and plans to complete the construction of two branches to the
the end of 2019, and was told on Wednesday the General Director of the company Alexey
Miller.

“In the second half of this
year we will start laying the offshore pipeline and plan to complete
the construction of two branches of the “Turkish stream” to the end of 2019,” said
Miller told reporters.

He added that
the implementation of the project of the pipeline “Turkish stream” “Gazprom” has set up in Istanbul
branch of the company South Stream Transport B. V.

Note that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has already announced the cost of the “Turkish stream.”

Reports Sputnik – translation
edition of “Russian conversation”