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Turkey delays Greece gas deliveries



By Upstream staff 

Turkey's first delivery of gas to Greece from Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz field will be delayed until the second week of August, a senior Turkish Energy Ministry official said today.

Earlier this month, Turkey's Energy Minister Hilmi Guler said the country was ready to receive gas from Shah Deniz and would send it to Greece at the end of July.

The official told Reuters the pipeline across the Meric river along the border had not been completed as planned.

"The first export of natural gas to Greece will not happen in July as had been planned. Because construction of the Meric section has not been completed, it cannot happen until the second week of August," the official said.

The official said 685,000 cubic metres of gas per day would be sent through the line this year.

"In this case exports in 2007 will amount to just 90 million cubic metres," he told the news agency.

Exports in 2007 had been initially targeted at 250 million cubic metres.

The $300 million, 285-kilometre Turkey-Greece pipeline, which will be extended to Italy, has an annual capacity of around 12 billion cubic metres and will hook up to a southern European network supplying gas to countries in the region.


Friday, 22 June, 2007, 08:38 GMT  | last updated: Friday, 22 June, 2007, 08:38 GMT

Delayed: Turkey said deliveries of Shah Deniz gas to Greece have been pushed back by a fortnight
 

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