{"id":5917,"date":"2023-06-10T14:48:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T14:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=5917"},"modified":"2023-06-10T14:55:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T14:55:01","slug":"turkeys-gas-imports-slip-from-record-to-nearly-54-7-bcm-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/5917\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s gas imports slip from record to nearly 54.7 bcm in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p>Roydad Naft News Agency &#8211; Turkey\u2019s natural gas imports in 2022 backtracked from a record in the previous year, according to the country\u2019s energy watchdog, driven in part by a greater power generation from renewable resources that drove the gas consumption downward.<br><br>Imports in 2022 fell some 6.9% year-over-year to nearly 54.7 billion cubic meters (bcm), the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK) said in a report on the 2022 natural gas market, a year marked by a prolonged global crisis in energy supply and prices that rocketed after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<br><br>Imports are projected to fall further this year, given that Turkey in April started pumping gas into the national grid from a vast reserve in the Black Sea, which was discovered gradually in August 2020.<br><br>Annual gas consumption had reached a record of nearly 60 bcm in 2021, compared to 48 bcm in 2020, a year overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic.<br><br>Consumption last year dropped by 10.58% year-over-year to 53.5 bcm, compared to the over 60 bcm estimate at the beginning of the year, the EPDK report showed.<br><br>Most of the 2022 imports, namely 39.49 bcm, came through pipelines, while around 15.17 billion was imported in the form of liquefied natural gas (LNG), the data showed.<br><br>T\u00fcrkiye is the 5th largest natural gas market in Europe with about 20 million subscribers and an average annual consumption of about 55 bcm.<br><br>Some 21.57 bcm, or 39.47%, of gas imported last year came from Russia, according to the report, while the rest came from Iran (9.4 bcm), Azerbaijan (8.7 bcm), the U.S. (5.6 bcm) and Algeria (5.3 bcm).<br><br>The report said Turkey\u2019s gas exports jumped by 51.8% to 581.43 million cubic meters. Almost half of that, namely 254.86 million cubic meters, was shipped to Bulgaria, followed by Greece at 228.29 million and Switzerland at 98.23 million.<br><br>Annual gas production decreased 3.7% year-over-year to 379.81 million cubic meters, the data showed.<br><br>Turkey in April launched the production from the Black Sea reserve, estimated to hold over 710 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas and projected to be worth around half a billion dollars, promising to curb the country&#8217;s external dependence and cut consumer energy prices.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2023-06-10T14:55:01+00:00\"> 10 June 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roydad Naft News Agency &#8211; Turkey\u2019s natural gas imports in 2022 backtracked from a record in the previous year, according to the country\u2019s energy watchdog, driven in part by a greater power generation from renewable resources that drove the gas consumption downward. 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