Azerbaijan reduces gas exports to Turkiye by over 4%

In September this year, Turkiye imported 710.48 million cubic meters of natural gas from Azerbaijan, Report informs referring to the Turkish Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK).

This is 3.73% less than in September last year.

In January-September this year, Turkiye imported 6.409 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Azerbaijan, which is 4.4% less than a year earlier.

In September this year, Turkiye imported a total of 3.401 billion cubic meters of gas, which is 20.56% less than in 2021. The leader in exports is Russia, which supplied 1.539 billion cubic meters to Turkiye (a decline of 23.09%). Iran is in second place, supplying Turkiye with 854.55 million cubic meters (a decline of 3.8%). Azerbaijan ranks third in this list, with the share in Turkiye’s total gas imports at 20.89%.

Turkiye receives natural gas produced from the Azerbaijani Shah Deniz field. Volumes of natural gas are supplied to the Turkish market through the South Caucasus pipeline (Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum) and the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP). The first gas through the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline entered the Turkish market in 2007. Commercial gas supplies to Turkiye through TANAP began on June 30, 2018.