15 Feb 2018 13:22

TANAP gas pipeline to be launched in July - Turkish energy minister

BAKU. Feb 15 (Interfax) - The Trans Anatolian Gas Pipeline Project (TANAP) will be launched this summer, Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak said at a Southern Gas Corridor Advisory Council meeting in Baku on Thursday.

"The Turkish energy minister said at the 4th Southern Gas Corridor Advisory Council meeting in Baku today that the TANAP's official launch ceremony will be held in July of this year," a participant in the meeting told Interfax.

Earlier in the day, Albayrak said at a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev that the testing of the TANAP began in January 2018.