Turkiye’s natural gas imports decreased by 4.2% in February compared to the same month of the previous year and became approximately 6 billion 11 million cubic meters.
According to the February “Natural Gas Market Sector Report” of the Energy Market Regulatory Authority, approximately 3 billion 147 million cubic meters of imports were realized through pipelines and 2 billion 864 million cubic meters of liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities.
In this period, natural gas imports through pipelines decreased by approximately 12.9%, while LNG imports increased by 7.8%. Total natural gas imports decreased by 4.2% in this period and became approximately 6 billion 11 million cubic meters.
While the most natural gas imports were made from Russia with 2 billion 65 million cubic meters in February, this country was followed by the USA with 1 billion 21 million cubic meters and Azerbaijan with 815 million cubic meters.
While natural gas imports from Russia decreased by 12.2%, imports from the USA decreased by 31%, imports from Azerbaijan increased by 9.1%.
Gas consumption of houses decreased by 16.1%
In the said period, natural gas consumption in the country decreased by 10.8% and became 6 billion 49 million cubic meters.
Natural gas consumption of organized industrial zones decreased by 17.5% and was recorded as 307 million cubic meters.
Natural gas consumption in power plants increased by 19% to 1 billion 159 million cubic meters.
Natural gas consumption in residences decreased by approximately 16.1% in this period and became 2 billion 947 million cubic meters.
Natural gas stock increased
The amount of natural gas stock in Turkiye increased by 188.7% compared to February of last year and reached 4 billion 809 million cubic meters.
4 billion 462 million cubic meters (92.8%) of the natural gas stock was in underground storage facilities, and 347 million cubic meters (7.2%) were in LNG terminals.
In this period, the amount of stock in underground storage facilities increased by approximately 243.3%, while the amount of stock in LNG terminals decreased by 5.1%.
Source: Trthaber / Prepared by Irem Yildiz