BOTAS to Issue Tender for Construction of Gas Pipeline from Kurdistan

Turkey’s state-owned energy company, the Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (BOTAŞ), will issue a tender for construction of gas pipeline from Northern Iraq early February, Daily Sabah reported Monday citing the tender document.

Şırnak gas pipeline will connect into the Turkish national network and will be constructed between the provinces of Şırnak and Mardin.  

Natural gas from Kurdistan region is expected to starting flowing into Turkey in next two to three years, Tony Hayward, chairman of Genel Energy said during seventh annual Atlantic Council's Energy and Economic Summit in Istanbul earlier this year.

"The Kurdish region [in northern Iraq] has in excess of 850 bcm of natural gas, with a potential of 5 trillion cubic meters of gas. It will satisfy the entire Turkish [gas] demand for decades to come," Anadolu Agency quoted Hayward as saying.