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       Drop in Iranian gas supplies to




       Turkey blamed on network fault




        IRAN             IRANIAN natural gas supplies flowing to Tur-  various industrial users.
                         key via a cross-border pipeline are down 70%   In January last year, rolling gas and power
                         since the start of the new year, with Iran hav-  cuts were imposed on Turkish industry, with
                         ing reported a network infrastructure fault,  Turkish officials citing reduced Iranian gas
                         Turkish state energy company Botas said in a  flows. On that occasion, Iran explained the
                         statement on January 7.              restricted flows by pointing to required main-
                           The announcement comes ahead of  tenance on energy infrastructure, but analysts
                         expected peak winter demand for gas. Iran is a  questioned whether Tehran had enough gas
                         heavy user of gas for both homes and industry.  matched with distribution capability to main-
                         Analysts within Iran were discussing the likeli-  tain exports.
                         hood that it was short of gas to export.   Others asked if Ankara was struggling
                           In Alborz province, northern Iran, indus-  to pay its gas debt to Iran given its depleted
                         try has been asked to work to a four-day week  FX reserves. Even though Iran has the sec-
                         until late February in order to conserve gas  ond-largest gas reserves in the world after
                         supplies.                            Russia, it has a relatively low production rate.
                           Botas added that it was monitoring the   Iran in 2021 supplied around 16% of Tur-
                         issue and that all necessary measures were  key’s gas. Russia is the biggest supplier of gas to
                         being implemented so that natural gas usage  Turkey, followed by Azerbaijan.
                         would not be negatively affected.      Turkey imports gas from Iran under an
                           Additional demand was being met by gas  agreement signed in 1996 for up to 10bn cubic
                         storage facilities in Turkey, it said. The Turkish  metres (bcm)/year until July 2026. It com-
                         energy ministry, however, warned gas short-  menced in 2001 and was later reduced to 9.6
                         falls could potentially affect power plants and  bcm/year.™



















































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