Azerbaijan increases gas supply to Turkey - TREND NEWS AGENCY

3 January 2017 12:20 (UTC+04:00)
Baku, Azerbaijan
Maksim Tsurkov

Azerbaijan supplied 5.31 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas to Turkey in January-October 2016 as compared to 5 bcm in the same period of 2015, Turkey's Energy Market Regulatory Authority said in a report on its website Jan. 3.

Azerbaijan supplied 6.17 bcm of natural gas to Turkey in 2015 as compared to 6.07 bcm in 2014.

The report said that in January-October 2016, Turkey imported 36.42 bcm of gas, of which 30.62 bcm were supplied via pipelines, while 5.8 bcm accounted for the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Turkey-Russia relations improve with pipeline politics - NATURAL GAS WORLD

November 19th, 2016, 8:20am

Last July’s failed coup attempt in Turkey alarmed everyone who is involved in this region one way or another, writes Anir Jahangirli for NGW. Reactions were across the board: financial markets in the country were shaken and internal political structures were thrown into disarray. The government introduced a state of emergency and is pursuing a hunt of possible coup-attempt allies and supporters.

As a country in southeast Europe and a member of Nato, Turkey hosts US nuclear arsenal and was a key Western ally during the Cold War against the USSR. It has a large competitive market economy and the country is a member of the G20 Club. Since Mr Erdogan came to power, Turkey’s economy saw a boost and the society has been transitioning from the strictly secular into a so-called “moderate Islamic” state.

Energy perspectives after Turkey's failed coup - NATURAL GAS EUROPE

July 16th, 2016

Turkey’s failed military coup mid-July raises a host of questions concerning the country’s stability, its investment climate and the future of gas deliveries to and though Turkey. It may also boost the prospects for a revival of the stalled Turkish Stream project to deliver Russian gas to Europe via Turkey.

For gas, there are two main issues to be considered: the security of the current and future import pipelines; and the possibility that the aftermath of the coup might prompt a re-think of future gas import projects.

Turkey relies massively on imported gas to meet its energy needs, with most coming via four major import pipelines: the 15bn m³/yr eastern Balkans line via Ukraine – a system which Russia has said it intends to close by the end of 2019; the 15bn m³/yr capacity Blue Stream pipeline across the Black Sea from Russia; the 6.6bn m³/yr Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum (BTE) system from Azerbaijan; and the 10bn m³/yr capacity line that brings Iranian gas across the border at Dogubayezit.

PAPER | Turkey's Role in Energy Security through Eastern Partnership | IndraStra Global

Image Attribute: Turkey's Oil and Natural Gas Pipelines
Source: The Middle East Eye

Saturday, January 16, 2016, IndraStra Global, By Tolga Demiryol 

What role does energy security play in the Eastern Partnership (EaP)? How can Turkey, as a regional partner to both the EU and most EaP countries, contribute to the energy platform of the EaP? This article discusses the prospects and challenges of EU-Turkish energy cooperation within the context of the EaP. Turkey’s relevance to the energy initiatives of the EaP in part stems from Turkey’s geopolitical position as an energy corridor.