Kremlin Weighs Boosting Turkish Gas Links to Replace Nord Stream
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow on Oct. 12.
Photographer: Alexey Maishev/Sputnik/AFP/Getty Images
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Russia is considering building more subsea natural gas pipelines to Turkey to redirect the idled flows on the Nord Stream link to Europe, President Vladimir Putin said ahead of a meeting with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“We could transfer to the Black Sea the lost Nord Stream volumes that used to be transited across the Baltic Sea,” Putin said Wednesday in his address to the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow. The Black Sea links to Turkey could become Russia’s main gas-export route for Europe, he said.