Gas deliveries to Hungary through TurkStream could start in two years, official says

Deliveries of Russian gas through the TurkStream pipeline to Hungary could start at the end of 2021 or in early 2022, the state secretary for energy affairs at the innovation and technology ministry, Peter Kaderjak, told public news channel M1, noting that the gas pipeline connects Turkey directly with Russia under the Black Sea. The pipeline, also designed to bypass Ukraine, will be extended to reach Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary, he said. In October 2019, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said Hungary would launch a procedure by the end of that month to contract gas capacity through the TurkStream pipeline from 2021. He added that Hungary could take delivery of an annual 10 billion cubic metres of gas across the Serbian border.