“we Decided immediately to establish a dialogue between our two governments to study the feasibility of such a project,” said Szteinic after a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Beratem Albayrakiem.
the Project “could allow us to deliver Israeli natural gas to Turkey and via Turkey to Europe”, – he added.
the Minister stated that, glad to see more participation of Turkish companies in the Israeli energy sector. “We will do everything in our power to ensure this”, he said.
Visit Szteinica was the first visit of an Israeli Minister in Turkey after a diplomatic crisis between the two countries.
In June, Israel and Turkey signed an agreement of completion of the diplomatic dispute.
Reuters calls the June announcement of normalization of relations rare zoom split the middle East and explains that his reason was as lucrative prospects of gas agreements and mutual fear of security threats.
at Stake are hundreds of billions of dollars and gas reserves in waters belonging to Israel and Cyprus on the Mediterranean Sea. To operate them, Israel is going to need cooperation with Turkey, which recently expressed interest in energy cooperation with Israel. Ankara has expressed willingness for Israeli imports of natural gas, production of which continues to grow.
“so far, we found approx. 900 billion cubic meters of natural gas. But next month we will open the exclusive economic zone of Israel for further searches. According to scientists, the greatest resources have not yet been discovered,” said Szteinic. As he added, we are talking about such amounts of raw materials, which Israel is unable to build himself.
on Monday the President of Russia Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed in Istanbul, the construction of two lines of Turkish Stream gas pipeline (Nord Stream). Russia can supply gas to Turkey and Europe via the Black Sea bottom.
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