ANTALYA, Türkiye, April 17. The Southern Gas
Corridor must be fully utilized, said Turkish Minister of Energy
and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar at the Antalya Diplomatic
Forum, Trend's
special correspondent reports.
“The Southern Gas Corridor must be fully utilized,” the minister
noted.
According to him, the priority is to make the most efficient use
of existing energy infrastructure.
"For the very first step we are proposing, it is necessary to
fully utilize the existing infrastructure. We have already
mentioned that approximately 16 billion cubic meters of gas are
supplied to Europe and Turkey combined. But there is also another
15–16 billion cubic meters of spare capacity. With some minor
investments, we need to utilize the existing infrastructure,"
Bayraktar said.
Speaking about oil infrastructure, he noted the presence of
significant spare capacity in the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline.
'With additional investment, I believe there is still at least
400,000, possibly 500,000 barrels per day of spare capacity. That
is why we need to make use of the existing pipelines,' the minister
added.
