Turkey: Europe’s Emerging Energy Corridor

In an era when countries are increasingly looking to diversify their energy sources, Turkey hopes to establish itself as a kind of energy supermarket, betting that controlling oil routes will turn out to be as strategically valuable as producing the stuff. Geographically, Turkey is endowed with advantages, so the country would like to use those advantages to take on a role as a supplier of energy resources.

There are many oil and gas pipeline projects in which Turkey is directly involved. These are:
East-West Corridor:

Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Project (Completed)

Kirkuk-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline (Completed)

South Caucasus Pipeline (under construction)

Turkey-Greece-Italy Gas Pipeline (Under Construction)

Nabucco Gas Pipeline (Projected)

Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (Projected)

Kazakh Oil-expansion to BTC (Projected)

Iraqi Gas (Projected)

North-South Corridor:

Blue Stream Gas Pipeline (Completed)

Samsun-Ceyhan Bypass Oil Pipeline (Projected)

Burgas-Alexandroupolis Oil Pipeline-Bypass for straits (Projected)

Samsun-Ceyhan Gas Pipeline (Projected)

Turkey-Israel Oil/Gas Pipeline (Projected)

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