It is noted that they will remain a consortium led by the Saudi company Arkad Engineering.

At the end of June, the chairman of the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria Tsveta Karayancheva said that the country plans to complete the construction of the Balkan branch of the Turkish Stream by the end of 2020.

The head of the Ministry of Energy of Russia, Alexander Novak, said that Hungary also confirmed its intention to expand its gas transmission system by the end of the year in order to receive gas from the Turkish Stream.

Leading expert of the National Energy Security Fund, lecturer at the Financial University under the Government of Russia, Igor Yushkov, in an interview with the FBA “Economics Today” assessed the prospects of the “Turkish Stream”.