Turkey increases gas exports in January-March

In January-March 2013, the Turkish state pipeline company Botas imported 9.71 billion cubic meters of gas from a variety of sources compared to 12.74 billion cubic meters in January-March 2012.

Last year, the export performance of Botas reached 622 million cubic meters of gas compared to 726 million cubic meters in 2011. In January-March 2013, 11.2 billion cubic meters of gas were sold in the domestic market of Turkey compared to 12.85 billion cubic meters of gas in January-March last year. Some 41.44 billion cubic meters of gas were sold in Turkey's domestic market in 2012 compared to 39.4 billion cubic meters of gas in 2011.