The shipment was 83 million cubic meters, which accounts for 7.15 percent of the country’s total LNG consumption.
According to the Turkish Energy Market Department (EPDK), in January the country bought 468 billion cubic meters of LNG from Algeria, 437 million cubic meters from Qatar, and 171 million cubic meters from Nigeria.
In January, the total amount of imported LNG reached 1.16 billion cubic meters, 396 million cubic meters more than last January. The total consumption in January was 5.39 billion cubic meters of LNG.
Turkey’s major gas suppliers are Russia (nearly 60 percent of country’s needs) as well as Azerbaijan and Iran.
In 2015, Gazprom delivered a total of 20 billion cubic meters of gas to Turkey. In January, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said Russian supplies to Turkey increased by 3.4 percent, against last January, to 2.82 billion cubic meters.
