Azerbaijan increased gas deliveries to Turkey by more than 50%
Since October 20, 2012 Azerbaijan increased gas deliveries from Shah-Deniz field to Turkey by more than 50%. This happened at the request of Turkish state company Botas after full suspension of gas transportation from Iran to Turkey, because of the act of terrorism on the pipeline on October 19, 2012, an official representative of BP in Turkey told Reuters correspondent.
Before that Turkey imported 10-11 million cub.m. of natural gas from Azerbaijan from the Shah-Deniz field a day.
According to the latest information from the Turkish sources, Botas plans to repair the damaged section of the Iran-Turkey gas pipeline near Agra region by October 26, 2012. Till the accident Turkey imported about 30 million cub.m. of gas from Iran via this pipeline. Right now gas shortage at the Turkish local market is covered mainly at the expense of increase in the Russia gas deliveries via the Blue Stream pipeline along the Black Sea bottom.
* BP company is the operator of the Shah-Deniz field, which extracts about 25 million cub.m. of gas a day. In addition to Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia and BTC Co company buy gas from the Stage-1 project of Shah-Deniz field development. BTC Co buys gas for the pumping stations of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline.-0-
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