Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct. 19 / Trend, A. Taghiyeva /
Botas is considering increasing natural gas imports from Azerbaijan because of an explosion, which occurred at night on a gas pipeline transporting gas from Iran to Turkey, a source at Botas told Trend on Friday.
A source said that at present, Turkey increased gas imports from Russia.
PKK militants detonated at night a section of the main pipe of the Iranian-Turkish gas pipeline to the Turkish province of Agri.
Around 27 million cubic meters of natural gas were daily supplied from Iran to Turkey through this gas pipeline.
According to the statistical data of the Botas state pipeline company, Turkey imported 39.7 billion cubic meters of gas in 2011. Russia ranks first among gas exporters to Turkey, followed by Iran and Azerbaijan.
