Gazprom has supplied its first billion m3 of gas via the TurkStream gas pipeline. Of that amount, approximately 54% went to the Turkish gas market and some 46% was delivered to the Turkey-Bulgaria border.
TurkStream is an export gas pipeline stretching from Russia to Turkey across the Black Sea. Its design capacity is 31.5 billion m3/y of gas.
Commercial supplies via the gas pipeline commenced on 1 January 2020. On 8 January, the presidents of Russia and Turkey held a grand opening ceremony for TurkStream in Istanbul, Turkey.