Turkey-based
pipe producer Borusan Mannesmann has announced that it is the first supplier to start
pipe shipments for the Trans-Anatolian pipeline project (TANAP) which will transfer natural gas from the Caspian region to
Europe through
Turkey. The company started
pipe production for TANAP on April 22 and made the first shipment to Ankara recently.
Borusan Mannesmann said that the shipments for TANAP will be completed in 2017.
A consortium of Turkish
pipe producers Borusan Mannesmann, Noksel Çelik Boru and Erciyas Çelik Boru had won a tender to supply 30 percent of the overall volume of 1.2 million mt of steel pipes to be used in the construction of the 1,900 km-long TANAP.