Durusu Terminal is a gas metering station in
Turkey
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, located in
Çarşamba district, nearly from the city of
Samsun
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. The terminal is virtually on the sea side, in the immediate vicinity of surfacing of the
Blue Stream
Blue Stream is a major trans-Black Sea gas pipeline that carries natural gas to Turkey from Russia. The pipeline has been constructed by the Blue Stream Pipeline B.V., the Netherlands based joint venture of Russian Gazprom and Italian Eni. T ...
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
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.
The engineering and procurement was done by the
Italian
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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
BOTAŞ
BOTAŞ Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (BOTAS) is the state-owned crude oil and natural gas pipelines and trading company in Turkey. The company was established in 1974 as a subsidiary of TPAO. Since 1995, BOTAS is a wholly state-owned company. ...
on the Turkish side and
Gazprom Export
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on the Russian side.
References
External links
The Blue Stream gas pipeline Website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russian Federation
GE Oil and Gas website
{{coord missing, Turkey
Natural gas terminals
Energy infrastructure in Turkey
Natural gas in Turkey
Buildings and structures in Samsun Province
Ports and harbours of Turkey
Ports and harbours of the Black Sea
2002 establishments in Turkey