Gazprom said Friday it plans to increase natural-gas exports
to Turkey
after deliveries from Iran were halted due to a pipeline explosion.
The Russian gas giant "has always compensated for the occurred
deficit and has always found ways to up gas exports above the previous
applications," company spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said.
Turkey--Russia's
second largest gas market after Germany--asked Gazprom to increase
deliveries after an explosion disabled the Iran-Ankara BOTAS pipeline,
which carries 27 million cubic meters of gas per day.
Turkish officials said the cut will last up to five days.