VOL. XLI

No. 16

20-April-1998

TURKEY

Turkey Announces Plans To Construct New LNG Receiving Terminal

Turkey's Minister of Energy, Mr. Cumhur Ersumer, recently announced that Turkey willconstruct a $600mn LNG receiving terminal at the port of Aliaga. The plant will have anannual capacity of 6bn cu. ms. (BCM) and be located on the coast of the Aegean Sea nearthe city of Izmir. It will be Turkey's second LNG receiving terminal, the first beinglocated at Marmara Ereglisi, west of Istanbul. Mr....