Natural gas will start flowing from Turkey to Hungary on April 1, so a “historical date is approaching,” the Hungarian foreign minister wrote in a post on Facebook. He added that the contract specifies the transfer of 275 million cubic metres of gas in the next few months, making Hungary the first non-neighbouring country that Turkey export gas to.
Turkey has already played an important role in Hungarian energy security as a transit country, and from now on it will also be a source of energy for supplies, he added.
“We will also tighten cooperation in the area of nuclear energy, as a new nuclear power station being built in Turkey will have identical technology as the new Paks nuclear power plant,” he said.
Hungary and Turkey are embarking on their broadest-ever energy cooperation as part of a new agreement after which natural gas imports from Turkey can start in 2024.
