VOL. XLV

No 16

22-April-2002

TURKEY

Blue Stream ProjectDelayed; Turkey Seeks Gas Price/Volume Reductions From Russia And Iran

The inauguration of the Blue Stream project, which isdesigned to carry 16BCM/year of natural gas from Russia to Turkey, will be delayed from the firsthalf of 2002 until next autumn because of construction delays on Russianterritory. The General Manager of Turkeys state-owned Petroleum PipelineCorp (Botas), Gokhan Bildaci, said in Ankara on 15 April that the $2.3bnproject,...