Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey has established a major presence in Kurdistan’s energy sector. Officials said Turkey’s state-owned companies were operating in the energy sector overseen by the autonomous Kurdish Regional Government. They cited Turkish Petroleum and Botas, which share an interest in a new joint venture in Kurdistan in cooperation with the U.S. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey has reported the imminent launch of a major natural gas pipeline from Central Asia. Prime Minister Recep Erdogan said Turkey has been preparing for the launch of construction of the Azeri-Turkish Trans Anatolia Pipeline in 2013. Erdogan said the governments in Azerbaijan and Turkey have approved the project, signed […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — The Kurdish Workers Party has been accused of targeting Turkey’s energy sector. Officials said PKK fighters blew up an oil pipeline from Iraq to Turkey in the second such attack in as many weeks. The officials said the bombing was part of a PKK offensive in which at least 115 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — China and Turkey have signed a natural gas storage agreement. Turkey’s state-owned Botas has contracted China’s Tianchen Engineering to build a gas depository under Turkey’s Lake Tuz in Central Anatolia. Under the agreement, reported at $559 million, Tianchen would build a facility by 2019 that could store one billion cubic […]