Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct.1
By Maksim Tsurkov - Trend:
BOTAS Petroleum Pipeline Corporation of Turkey imported 26.51 billion cubic meters of gas from various sources in Jan.-Aug. 2015, or 4.4 percent less than in the same period of 2014 (27.73 billion cubic meters), said the message posted on the company's website.
Turkey also imports gas from Azerbaijan, which is supplied via the South Caucasus gas pipeline (Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum). The country has a contract on purchasing 6.6 billion cubic meters of gas from Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz gas and condensate field per year.
BOTAS imported about 40 billion cubic meters of gas from various sources in 2014, compared to 36.1 billion cubic meters in 2013.
Moreover, BOTAS export operations accounted for 424 million cubic meters of gas in Jan.-Aug. 2015, compared to 459 million cubic meters a year earlier.
In total, the company's export operations accounted for 644 million cubic meters of gas in 2014, compared to 694 million cubic meters in 2013.
The message said that 26.89 billion cubic meters of gas was sold in Turkey's domestic market in Jan.-Aug. 2015, compared to 26.46 billion cubic meters in the same period of 2014.
This figure stood at 40.81 billion cubic meters as of 2014, compared to 37.96 billion cubic meters in 2013.
Edited by SI
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