Iran has resumed pumping gas to Turkey after supply was disrupted last week when a key pipeline was sabotaged, an official from Turkish state energy company Botas said yesterday. The official told Reuters that gas resumed flowing on Tuesday after tests showed that the quality of the gas from Iran had improved.
Turkey suspended buying Iranian gas last week due to quality and maintenance problems.
Gas importer Turkey, which has relied on increased shipments of natural gas from Russia since sabotage of the key pipeline last month disturbed the gas flow, also wants to reduce its dependence on Russian gas in the longer term.
“The 30 million cubic meters taken from Iran because of cuts in the Iran pipeline will soon be lowered to 22 million cubic meters,” said the official. Russia and Iran are both contracted to provide 22 million cubic metres of natural gas daily to Turkey.
(Reuters)