OREANDA-NEWS. November 1, 2007. At the Botas Headquarters in Ankara Gazprom export and Avrasya A.S. have signed today the deal to supply gas from Russia to Turkey in amount of 500 mln cu m annually until 2021.

The signing of said deal ends up the first stage of the right transferring to sell gas by the state company Botas to the private companies within the gas market liberalization in Turkey.

“Turkey is an extremely important partner for us. Russian gas export volumes to Turkey annually increase. In 2004 gas supplies reached 14.5 bcm, in 2005 – more than 18 bcm and in 2006 – nearly 20 bcm. We are expecting that this number will reach 23 bcm in 2007. Turkey is the third largest Russian gas supplier,” said Sergey Kupriyanov, Press Secretary of the Gazprom Management Committee Chairman.

As he said Gazprom was a very reliable business partner not only in Turkey and in other foreign countries. 

“Our commercial company inviolately fulfills the deal commitments and in case of the unforeseen circumstances as we proved earlier, Gazprom will not refuse to supply additional gas volumes to Turkish market,” underscored Sergey Kurpiyanov.