Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said yesterday Turkey was seeking a
re-export clause in its contract to import Russian natural gas. The
Turkish government wants the right to re-export the fuel in its current
contract to import an annual 6 billion cubic meters of Russian gas from
a western trans-Balkan pipeline, Yildiz told reporters. “The right to
re-export has to do with selling the gas we buy to another country ...
which is a right we don’t have in our Russian contract, so it will be
among our proposals,” he said. “We are especially seeking such (a
clause) in our agreement with Russia which expires in 2011.” Turkey has
a contractual right to re-export gas it imports from Azerbaijan and it
sells that fuel to Greece.
(from "KATHIMERINI" Newspaper, 06-07/06/2009)