Azerbaijan Raises Flows to Turkey
While Russia reduced its gas imports from Azerbaijan from 2013 and stopped totally last year, Turkey has been ramping up imports over the last four years.
The Turkish Department for the Energy Market Regulation reported on March 28 that Turkey imported 594.46mn m3 of gas from Azerbaijan in January. That was up by 3%, or 17.1mn m³, on January 2015, and represents 11% of Turkey’s imports.
According to the report, in 2015 Azerbaijan exported 6.17bn m3of natural gas to Turkey compared with 6.07bn m3 in 2014 and 4.25bn m3 in 2013.
According to Azerbaijan's official statistics, gas deliveries to Turkey (plus 5% transit fee for Georgia) were 6.65bn m3 in 2015, 6.5bn m3 in 2014 and 4.70bn m3 in 2013.
Russia stopped importing gas from Azerbaijan in 2015, while its gas intake from Baku dropped from 1.3bn m3 in 2013 to about 0.2bn m3 in 2014. Azerbaijan exports gas to Turkey from the first phase of the Shah Deniz field.
This field produced 9.9bn m3 in 2015, unchanged from 2014 but 0.1bn m3 more than 2013.
According to the Turkish Department for the Energy Market Regulation, Turkey imported 5.39bn m3 in January 2016, of which 4.23bn m3 came by pipeline and 1.16bn m3 came by tanker as LNG.
Turkey imports gas from Azerbaijan via the Southern Caucasian gas pipeline (Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum).
Iran desk