Turkey discusses new gas contracts with Baku and Moscow

It is expected that the consumption of natural gas in Turkey in 2021 will exceed 60 billion cubic meters. M, said Journalists in the sidelines of the Gastech conference, Deputy Minister of Energy of the country Alpslan Bayraktar, writes Interfax.

“over the past few years, electricity consumption has grown, while the renewable RES began to play a prominent role, and the power consumption on the power side decreased slightly. This year we see that gas consumption is growing. High gas prices affect energy supplies. In Last year we were able to get more LNG (15 billion cubic meters), because there were competitive prices, this year will be really heavy, but we are negotiating with our current suppliers, like Azerbaijan, Russia, on new contracts and volumes … Negotiations Go well, “said Bayraktar.