Turkey brokers key gas supply deals for Nabucco
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Azerbaijan and Turkey Monday (7 June) signed a deal to ship 11 billion cubic metres of Azeri gas per year to Turkey. Shipments would start in 2017 and some of the gas may be pumped into the EU's planned Nabucco pipeline. Meanwhile, Northern Iraq declared in Turkey that it stands ready to provide gas supplies "to make Nabucco work".The agreement was signed in Istanbul by Azerbaijan's minister of industry and energy, Natig Aliyev, and Turkey's minister of energy and natural resources, Taner ...