Gazprom gave Turkey a discount of 10.25%

The Minister of energy and natural resources of Turkey announced that the parties came to an agreement about the value of blue fuel. In addition he spoke about the discount on Russian gas.

The energy and natural resources Minister Taner Yildiz announced that the Ministry of energy of Turkey and Gazprom have agreed on the amount of discounts on the imported Russian gas. He noted that now the blue fuel for his country will cost to 10.25% less than previously.

"We got a discount on Russian gas at the rate of 10.25%," he said, Yildiz RIA Novosti. In early December last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia will lower the cost of gas for Turkish buyers 6% from 1 January 2015. Later the head of the Ministry of energy and natural resources of Turkey said that Turkey will achieve greater discounts up to 15%.

With all that in 2014, Gazprom exported to Turkey 27.4 billion cubic meters of gas. Blue fuel goes through the pipeline "Blue stream", laid on the seabed of the Black sea, and in the TRANS-Balkan pipeline through Ukraine.

Days.Ru wrote that in December 2014 at the talks with Turkish partners, the Russian management has announced the stop of the gas pipeline "South stream". After the failure of the implementation of this initiative, Russia has started the cooperation with Turkey to create a new pipeline that power will overshadow the existing Blue stream" and will allow you to export Russian fuel in the European Union through the country. Concrete steps were not long in coming: it became known about the creation of "Gazprom" of the individual enterprise, which will implement fresh project. The group creates the enterprise for the construction of a gas pipeline to Turkey. The company is registered in St. Petersburg.

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