Fedor Smirnov. Turkey until could not reach an agreement with Gazprom on Gas price for 2015, said the Minister of energy and natural resources Taner Yildiz on Wednesday correspondents in Istanbul.

"We had two meetings on Gas prices in 2015, but as long as without reaching an agreement," said Yildiz. He added that low oil prices weaken Turkey's position in the negotiations, and the parties have the opportunity to spend their third round in the near future.

According to Yildiz, due to the cold weather in January in Turkey has increased the consumption of natural gas, which has reached over the last 10 days to 2 billion cubic meters. Fixed absolute maximum gas consumption in Istanbul, Ankara, Bursa, Eskisehir and Kocaeli.

Turkey consumes 45 billion cubic meters of gas per year, the share of gas From Russia is about 60%. In 2013, Gazprom exported to Turkey 26, 6 billion cubic meters of gas. Gas From Russia to Turkey is transported via a pipeline " Blue stream ", laid under the Black sea, and the TRANS-Balkan gas pipeline through Ukraine.

Russia and Turkey have agreed to increase the capacity of the Blue stream " from 16 to 19 billion cubic meters per year. During the visit of the President of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to Turkey on 1 December last year, the parties came to an agreement on the construction of the pipeline across the Black sea to Turkey with a capacity of 63 billion cubic meters of gas per year. 14 billion cubic meters of gas provided for Turkey, the remaining amount will be delivered to the border of Turkey and Greece. In addition, the Russian President during his visit to Turkey said on providing Ankara with 2015 discounts on the price of Gas at 6% and that Russia is ready to cut rates further.

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