Industry sources said the government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Erdogan has approved an Iranian request to supply gasoline to Teheran. They
said the first gasoline shipments would arrive from Turkey by July 2010.
"Turkey has promised to shield Iran from any international gasoline
embargo," a source said.
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Under U.S. pressure, Turkey severed gasoline shipments to Iran in late
2008. The sources said Ankara's latest agreement was finalized after an
announcement that Teheran would swap nuclear fuel in cooperation with
Turkey.
Meanwhile, Qatar has been offering liquefied natural gas to two
allies in the Middle East.
Qatar has been negotiating sales agreements for LNG with Lebanon and
Turkey. Under one proposal, Qatar would supply Lebanon with three million
tons of LNG to help power the electricity sector of the Levant nation. Doha
has already supplied Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates with gas.
Doha, with capacity of 61 million tons per year, was also discussing
expansion of LNG sales to Turkey. On May 16, Qatari Energy Minister Abdullah
Al Attiyah said Doha was negotiating with Turkey's state-owned pipeline
operator Botas for the sale of LNG to Ankara.
Qatar's other LNG producer, RasGas, has
already delivered LNG to Turkey.
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