Turkey has asked Gazprom to increase gas supplies through Ukraine

Turkey appealed to Gazprom a petition to increase gas supplies on the Western route through Ukraine, said the Minister of energy and natural resources of Turkey Taner Yildiz correspondents in the capital of Russia.
" Today we are at the beginning of the winter period, when the demand in Gaza during December, January, February, increases. In part regions of Turkey's gas consumption in summer and winter varies in 22 times, " he said, according to news Agency ". On Wednesday, Yildiz said that the leadership of Gazprom, according to unverified information, according to start additional Supply of gas through the Blue stream pipeline to Turkey ahead of 2016. First Yildiz said that Turkey has turned to Russia with a request to provide the country a discount on gas. In addition, the Turkish Ambassador in the capital of Russia Umit Yardim said that his country wants to significantly increase the purchase of gas from Russia. It was also stated the planned working visit of the President centuries Putin to Turkey. It is planned that one of the key topics of the meeting will be the interaction of countries in the energy field. The message of Putin's visit was preceded by complaints of the Turkish side to reduce daily deliveries of Russian natural gas to 42 million cubic meters to 28 million However, the October 1, 2014, the head of the Board of Gazprom Alexey Miller and Minister of energy and natural resources of Turkey Taner Yildiz agreed in the near future to the maximum load gas pipeline " Blue stream", and to increase its capacity from 16 to 19 billion cubic meters per year. Russia and Turkey are active cooperation in the gas sphere. Turkey is the second largest market for Gazprom after Germany. In 2013, Gazprom exported to Turkey 26, 6 billion cubic meters of gas. Gas supplies from Russia to Turkey carried out by the gas pipeline " Blue stream " and TRANS-Balkan pipeline.


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