Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 45

7-Nov-2011

CASPIAN

Turkey Renegotiates Terms Of BTC Operation, Secures Gas Prices To 2018

Turkeys Minister of Energy Taner Yildiz announced on 28 October that state firm Botas has secured a decrease in the cost of the gas supplied by Azeri state firm Socar for the operation of gas turbines that support the operation of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline. Mr Yildiz said that Botas International Limited, operator of the Turkish section of BTC,...