Durusu Terminal is a gas metering station in

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, located in Çarşamba district, nearly from the city of

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. The terminal is virtually on the sea side, in the immediate vicinity of surfacing of the

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sub-sea natural gas pipeline. The approximate size of the Durusu Terminal is . It is an integral component of the Russian-Turkish Blue Stream project

History

The foundation of the gas metering terminal was laid on 24 October 2000. The station was constructed by OHS Consortium, a joint venture between two Turkish companies Öztaş and Hazinedaroğlu and Russia's Stroytransgaz. The engineering and procurement was done by the

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company Nuovo Pignone. On 20 October 2002, the "golden welding" of the terminal to the pipeline was completed and starting on 30 December 2002, flow of natural gas from Russia to Turkey through Blue Stream was commenced.

Purpose and operation

The main purpose of the station is to lower and measure the pressure of incoming gas. It is designed for incoming flowing pressure of , which is then reduced down to for further distribution to local gas transporting system. Rated capacity of the station is 2 million cubic meters per hour. Control and management of the station is automated. Metering of transported gas is done by representatives of

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on the Turkish side and Gazprom Export on the Russian side.

References

External links

The Blue Stream gas pipeline
Website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russian Federation

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