The consortium of India's Punj Lloyd and Turkey's Limak Holding will construct the 459-kilometer section of the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) that will span from Eskişehir to the Greek border.

A written statement released by the TANAP Natural Gas Transmission Corporation said an agreement was signed between the consortium of Punj Lloyd and Limak Holding as a result of the evaluation of the pipeline project's tender bids in which 11 qualified domestic and foreign companies competed. The 459-kilometer pipeline with a 48-inch diameter will begin in Eskişehir and end in Edirne's İpsala province on the Greek border, passing through Bilecik, Kütahya, Bursa, Balıkesir, Çanakkale and Tekirdağ.

TANAP will carry the natural gas that will be drilled from Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz-2 gas field to Europe, passing through a nearly 1,850-kilometer-long pipeline in total.