Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 27
By Emil Ismayilov - Trend:
The Turkish state pipeline company Botas imported 30.89 billion cubic meters of gas from a variety of sources in January-October 2013 compared to 35 billion cubic meters in January-October 2012, Botas official website said.
In 2012, Botas imported 43.09 billion cubic meters of gas from a variety of sources compared to more than 39.7 billion cubic meters in 2011.
Turkey also imports gas from Azerbaijan, which is supplied via the South Caucasus gas pipeline (Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum).
Botas exported 562 million cubic meters of gas in January-October compared to 516 million cubic meters in January-October last year.
Last year, Botas's export indices reached 622 million cubic meters of gas compared to 726 million cubic meters in 2011.
In January-October 2013, about 30 billion cubic meters of gas were sold in the domestic market of Turkey compared to over 33.09 billion cubic meters of gas in January-October last year.
Some 41.44 billion cubic meters of gas were sold in the Turkish domestic market in 2012 compared to 39.4 billion cubic meters of gas in 2011.