Turkey Needs To Secure 30 BCM/Year In Gas Purchase Deals Before 2000

From: APS Review Gas Market Trends | Date: June 10, 1996 | Copyright information

Turkey's state pipeline and distribution company, Botas, has to secure a series of long-term contracts to purchase up to 29-30 BCM/year of natural gas by 2010. This volume includes contracts for current supplies already signed.

Supplies in addition to those already contracted should begin by 2005 or before. Most of the new supplies would have to come by pipelines from the Middle East and Central Asia, proposed to pass through Turkey to Europe.

The lead time is not ...

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