VOL. XLV

No 4

28 January 2002

TURKEY

Botas Revises Gas Supply/DemandScenarios

Turkeys Petroleum Pipeline Corp(Botas) has revised its gas supply and demand scenario to project demand at20BCM in 2002 and 31.6BCM in 2003, compared to contracted supply volumes forthose years of 25BCM and 27.9BCM respectively.However, in view of the present poor condition of Turkeys economy andthe fact that the country has failed to keep pace with its own plans to expandgas-fired electricity generation or expand the...