Iran will increase natural gas exports to Turkey this winter, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported, citing Iran's oil minister.
Gholam Hossein Nozari said that Iran recently negotiated with Turkey on raising the volume of gas exported to the country during the recent meeting of oil consumers and producers held in Jeddah, IRNA said.
Natural gas has been exported to Ankara, based on a contract signed in 1996, through Iran's northwestern city of Tabriz since December 2001, IRNA reported.
Iran, which holds the world's second largest natural gas reserves after Russia, currently supplies one third of Turkey's domestic natural gas needs, IRNA said.