19-10-05 The Blue Stream Project will officially be inaugurated in Samsun on December 17, revealed Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the parliamentary group meeting of the Justice and Development Party.
The Prime Minister also confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will attend the inauguration.

Turkey signed an inter-government contract with Russia in 1997 to receive an annual 16 bn cm of natural gas from Russia over the next 25 years.
The project with an estimated cost of $ 3.5 bn covers the installation of a 1,200 km pipeline. Some 376 km of the pipeline will be laid 2,100 m beneath the Black Sea.

The first time natural gas came to Samsun was December 2002.
The state-owned Turkish pipeline company BOTAS already continues to receive natural gas through the Blue Stream pipeline.