To Fill a Pipeline (Interconnector Turkey-Greece-Italy)
Article from: OGEL 3 (2008), in Pipelines
Introduction
The Turkey-Greece Interconnector inaugurated by Messrs. Karamanlis and Erdogan on Sunday, 18 November, is part of a larger project that will link Turkey and Greece with Italy, supplying Western markets with natural gas from the Caspian basin. This partially EU-funded and U.S.-supported project is the first that will bypass Russia - at least in the present phase - and is aimed at transporting 11.6 billion cubic metres of Azeri natural gas annually by 2012-2014, when the ITGI (Interconnector Turkey-Greece-Italy) will become fully operational. Through the creation of this pipeline, ...