Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler said Wednesday that a recent energy deal signed with Iran may come into service in four years time, the Ihlas News Agency, or IHA, reported.
Under the deal, Guler said, three phases of Iran's South Pars gas field will be developed and daily production will be 46 million cubic meters in these phases, from which Turkey will take 23 million cubic meters of gas, he added.
Guler also said a natural gas pipeline with an annual capacity of 35 billion cubic meters will be built to transport gas from Turkmenistan via Iran to Turkey. Turkey will sell this gas to Europe, Guler said.
Technical studies on the deal will take a year and after this, the projects may come into service in three years.