The
Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) project consortium has defined a joint
venture composed of India’s Punj Lloyd and Turkey’s Limak Holding to
build a 459-kilometer section of the pipeline from Turkey’s Eskişehir
province to the border with Greece.
"The
joint venture will carry out construction of a 48-inch, 459-km section
of the 1,850-km long TANAP pipeline, starting from Eskişehir, passing
through the cities of Bilecik, Kütahya, Bursa, Balıkesir, Çanakkale,
Tekirdağ and Edirne, ending in Edirne’s Ipsala district on the
Turkish-Greek border,” the TANAP consortium said in a written statement
on Jan. 25.
A
total of 11 local and foreign companies were found qualified to bid and
invited to the tender on June 8, 2015, according to the statement.
Three
other companies - Fernas Construction, the Sicim-Yüksel-Akkord
consortium and Tekfen Construction - are the contractors for the
construction of the onshore portion of the TANAP, with a length of
around 1,400 kilometers. They will build the section of the gas pipeline
to Eskişehir.
The
initial capacity of the TANAP is expected to be 16 billion cubic meters
(bcm) of gas from Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz II field in the Caspian Sea,
one of the world’s largest gas fields developed by a BP-led consortium,
annually and will be gradually increased to 31 bcm. Around 6 bcm of gas
will be delivered to Turkey, while the remainder will be supplied to
Europe reports Hurriyet Daily.
(balkans.com)
