Russia has started European gas deliveries through the new TurkStream pipeline to Turkey, Bulgaria’s Bulgartransgaz said on Sunday, as Moscow looks to reduce shipments via Ukraine, Reuters reports.
Russia is constructing TurkStream and doubling the capacity of NordStream across the Baltic Sea to Germany as part of plans to bypass Ukraine in its gas deliveries to Europe.
Russian gas producer Gazprom started shipping about 3 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas to Bulgaria through TurkStream on January 1, replacing a route that formerly passed through Ukraine and Romania.
Gazprom shipped about 3 bcm to Greece and nearly 500,000 mcm to North Macedonia via that route last year.
Russia is building TurkStream in two pipelines, each with an annual capacity of 15.75 bcm.
The first pipeline is aimed at supplying Turkey and the second would run further from Bulgaria to Serbia and Hungary. Bulgaria hopes to be able to make shipments to Serbia by May and build the whole section by year-end.
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