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RUSSIA metres per day in November. Turkey, Azerbaijan sign MoU
Moscow and Kyiv last year signed a
Energy Ministry to cut staff new deal for Russian gas transportation on Nakhchivan gas pipeline
to Europe via Ukraine, a major route for
by 5% in January Gazprom’s gas exports, for 2020-2024. The energy ministers of Turkey and
Ukraine energy company Naftogaz said
Azerbaijan have signed a memorandum of
The Russian Energy Ministry will close in October that Gazprom had asked it about understanding (MoU) for the construction
three departments and cut 5% of staff from booking more capacity to transport gas to of a natural gas pipeline from Turkey to the
January 1, the ministry said in a statement Europe, a sign Gazprom was worried that Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan.
December 31. US sanctions are targeting its Nord Stream 2 The security of Nakhchivan’s energy
The government ordered the ministry to pipeline project to avoid Ukraine. supply would be secured by the pipeline,
cut the number of deputy ministers to five Gazprom had already booked 65 billion Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Donmez
from seven. cubic meters of capacity for gas exports via said on December 15 at the MoU signing
The ministry said that it will close the Ukraine in 2020. ceremony also attended by Azerbaijani
project management, corporate policies and counterpart Parviz Shahbazov.
property relations and payment discipline Building a pipeline directly from
monitoring departments. Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan is out of
CENTRAL ASIA & SOUTH the question as it would have to go via
Armenian territory, and Baku and Yerevan
Promsvyazbank says gives CAUCASUS do not have diplomatic relations.
The planned pipeline would be linked
$6bn of guarantees for Turkey’s 6.6-bcm natural to the Igdir Natural Gas Pipeline located in
the easternmost Turkish province of Igdir
Arctic LNG 2 gas contract with and would likely be filled with gas obtained
from Azerbaijan, according to Donmez.
Promsvyazbank has given over U.S. $6 Azerbaijan’s Socar to expire Turkey's Petroleum Pipeline Company
billion of state guarantees for the Arctic (BOTAS) and Azerbaijan’s state energy
LNG 2 LNG project, the bank said in a in April company SOCAR are to cooperate in
statement on December 31. constructing the pipeline.
"The state guarantees were provided for The 6.6bn cubic-metre (bcm) natural gas Nakhchivan has a population of
loans to 15 leasing companies participating contract in which Azerbaijan’s state oil nearly 500,000 and an annual natural gas
in fulfillment of the project. The money company SOCAR supplies Turkey's state-run consumption of 500mn cubic metres,
is provided for construction of LNG gas pipeline operator Botas is set to expire in April Donmez said.
carrier vessels," the bank said. 2021, Turkey’s government-run news service Nakhchivan currently depends mainly
Anadolu Agency reported on December 29. on natural gas that arrives via Iran, based
The renewal of the contract is seen as on Azerbaijani swap operations with the
unlikely since Turkey is already importing Iranians.
EASTERN EUROPE 6bcm of gas via the Trans Anatolian Natural Under a swap agreement between Baku
Gas Pipeline (TANAP), part of the newly and Tehran inked in 2004, Azerbaijan
Gazprom raises capacity operational Southern Gas Corridor (SGC) supplies gas to Iran's isolated northwestern
border city of Astara, with 85% of that
that runs to Europe from Azerbaijan.
requests for shipments via Russia’s Gazprom and a 1.3bcm liquefied volume flowing to Nakhchivan. .
Additionally, a 4bcm contract with
Ukraine in January natural gas (LNG) contract with Nigeria are
to expire at the end of 2021.
Russian gas group Gazprom has raised its Russia supplies gas to Turkey via the Tatneft, Allur to invest
additional transportation capacity requests TurkStream and Blue Stream undersea RUB21bn in Kazakh tires unit
for gas exports to Europe through Ukraine pipelines traversing the Black Sea. They have
in January, based on trading platform data a total capacity of 32 bcm per year. Russian oil company Tatneft and Kazakhstan's
cited by Reuters. Other gas contracts totalling 4bcm that Allur will invest in a RUB20.9 bn tire joint
Data from the Hungarian Regional Botas transferred to private sector in 2007 venture (JV) in Kazakhstan, Tatneft said
Booking Platform showed the Ukrainian are also set to expire over the course of 2021. in a statement on December 30, a day after
gas transportation operator has sold 41.2 A 2.1bcm LNG contract with Qatar it signed the deal with the government of
million cubic metres per day of pipeline expired in September. Kazakhstan, Allur Tyres, KamaTyresKZ and
capacity to Gazprom at an auction for The overall volume of oil-indexed long- group Allur.
transportation of gas via the Sudzha term natural gas contracts that will expire in The sides will establish a highly-
transhipment point at the Russia/Ukraine 2021 totals 15.9bcm. Turkey has 58bcm of technological manufacturing of car
border for January. such contracts in total. components, including a tire plant in
For December, Gazprom had booked Kazakhstan.
11.4 million cubic metres of additional
capacity per day and 10.27 million cubic

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