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Undersecretary of Turkish Energy Ministry Selahattin Cimen, Director General of the Israeli Ministry of National Infrastructure Hezi Kugler, and Indian state oil company IOC's Director B.M. Bansal attended the meeting.
Med Stream, a multi-purpose offshore pipeline project to connect
Feasibility studies are planned to begin by the end of this year and would be completed in the summer of 2009, Kugler told the state-run Anatolian Agency.
Kugler said construction of the pipeline would start at the end of 2009, the earliest, or in 2010. He said it would take at least more than a year to finish the construction works.
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Normally, crude is shipped to Far East in 50 days but when the Med Stream is completed it would take 19 days to transport crude from the
Kugler said that several other Asian countries, including
Israeli officials are still insistent on buying water from
However, they said purification of sea water was costly as well. All pipelines in the world pump natural gas and oil but water transportation through pipelines has not been tried before, they said. Therefore deliberate technical work and infrastructure is needed, they added.