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Turkey : Blast hits Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline - ENERGY
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An explosion has hit the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars-Erzurum gas pipeline in eastern Turkey, a provincial governor has told Anadolu Agency.

Günay Özdemir, the governor of northeastern Kars province, said the blast happened in the early hours of Aug. 4 at a section of the pipeline located in the Sarıkamış district. Gas flow was cut in nearby Yağbasan village for safety reasons.

“An investigation is underway into the explosion and the necessary measures have been taken,” Özdemir said, as quoted by the agency.

Energy Minister Taner Yıldız said in written statement the gas flow through the pipeline had been stopped after sabotage by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the very early hours of Aug. 4, as reported by Reuters.

An anonymous source told Reuters the blast occurred on the Posof side of the pipeline, which is owned by Turkish state-run gas grid Botaş, and had damaged the pipeline.

“There has not been any gas flow through the pipeline so we’ll [not] see any negative effect about meeting the demand,” a source told Reuters.

#Turquie #PKK #guerre_énergie

Energy minister’s comment on HDP voters draws criticism
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Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız’s implication in a meeting that pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) voters will change their minds about the party if they are left without electricity for three days has drawn widespread criticism in the media.

The minister was answering questions from members of the press after attending a meeting on Monday where the Turkish National Committee of the World Energy Council (WEC) report on energy sources and energy consumption was presented.

Referring to the “strategic voters” of the HDP, Yıldız had said: “Our citizens realize that the actions of the HDP have been changing in the last two months. Whether there’s an early election or not, I believe the majority of the HDP’s strategic votes will disappear. I expect that when the voters are left without electricity for three days, they will begin to evaluate the situation properly.”

The strategic voters of the HDP are composed mostly of liberals and leftists who supported the HDP in the recent general election not because of its political views but to prevent the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) from winning the majority in Parliament, which was accomplished when the HDP passed the election threshold.

HDP voters perceived Yıldız’s statement to be a threat to leave them without electricity for three days so that they would vote for the AK Party if no coalition government is formed and an early election is held. Many Twitter users reacted to the minister’s statement, with one saying he will consider Yıldız responsible for any future power blackouts that take place in Turkey

#Turquie #Electricité #Election

Gazprom signals fall in gas prices
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Price raise is good for Turkish market

Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yıldız asked for a discount on the price of gas Turkey buys from Russia during talks with Medvedev last week. Meanwhile, the Turkish government said it will raise both electricity and gas prices by 9 percent this year.

“The latest 9 percent raise in gas prices is a positive move for the Turkish market, I believe. The Turkish state is regulating gas prices, and the regulated prices are very low when we have a look at how much Turkey pays to import gas from Iran and other countries. This shows that free market dynamics are not working properly. With a raise in prices, BOTAŞ, the Turkish Energy Ministry and the private sector may reach a reasonable price basis. In this vein, I found the latest 9 percent raise a positive move and Turkey should continue to make such moves,” Medvedev said.

#Gaz_russe #Géopolitique #Libéralisation #Turquie

100-200 trees shouldn’t stop Turkey’s development: Energy minister
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Energy Minister Taner Yıldız has defended the controversial razing of an olive grove for the construction of a coal plant in the mining town of Soma, arguing that “100-200 trees shouldn’t stop Turkey’s development.”

Minister targets PKK over illegal electricity use
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Energy Minister Taner Yıldız singled out the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) while addressing recent protests about electricity cuts in southeast Turkey on Tuesday.

“We know that the PKK has said it would be great if you do not pay your bills,” said Yıldız, referring to the illicit use of electricity that has been a problem in the Southeast for years.

“It must be known that the number of people who pay their electricity bills in this region is around 10 percent. [The Ministry of Energy] serves 77 million people. We need to stress to the public that there is a difference between those who pay their bills and those who do not. It is not right for those who do not pay to take from those who do,” continued Yıldız.

“Those who have not paid their bills — intentionally or unintentionally — must do so immediately," said Yıldız.

Illegal electricity usage reportedly cost every Turkish household registered with an energy company TL 140 last year. A total of TL 4.9 billion was lost through unpaid electricity because of illicit usage in 2013.

The formerly state-owned Dicle Electricity Distribution Company (DEDAŞ) was privatized last year. One of the DEDAŞ partners, pro-government businessman Abdullah Tivnikli, came under scrutiny when it was revealed that he had received loans from Kuveyt Türk — a bank where Tivnikli is the deputy board manager — to help finance the privatization venture.

An extended period of drought, which began at the end of last year, has severely reduced the volume of water in Turkey’s reservoirs and raised concerns that electricity production will decline.

#Electricité
#Piratage
#Privatisation
#PKK

Energy minister says will ask Russia to lower gas prices
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Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız said on Thursday that the existing natural gas sales contract between Russia and Turkey stipulates that prices can be revised at the start of 2015, and so Turkey will submit a request to Russians to adjust its gas prices downward.

Turkey gets about 42 million cubic meters of natural gas daily from the pipeline in western Ukraine, and in the event of an interruption on this line due to the current political crisis, the amount of gas lost cannot be made up elsewhere. This means that Turkey’s commercial and industrial heartland, the Marmara region and İstanbul in particular, may face a natural gas shortage. The minister, however, added that he didn’t believe there would be a serious problem in gas flow that would shake Turkey.

Prices unlikely to fall

The energy minister commented on the domestic market prices of natural gas, too. There has been tremendous pressure to hike prices, especially due to the social turbulence and chaos in the region, particularly in Iraq, Yılmaz said. He added that domestic market prices are hard to bring down, even if Russia concedes to lowering the price of the natural gas it sell to Turkey. “We are struggling not to transfer the increasing costs to households and industries. If we can get a reduction [from Russia] and pull down our costs, this will be used to decrease the losses of BOTAŞ [the state-owned Turkish Pipeline Corporation],” Yıldız noted.

#Géopolitque
#Turquie
#Ukraine
#Irak
#Russie
#Gaz

201 killed, hundreds trapped by coal mine explosion: Energy Minister

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Some 201 coal miners were killed and hundreds were trapped at a mine in the western province of Manisa’s Soma district on May 13 after a fire broke out following an explosion in a power distribution unit, Energy Minister Taner Yıldız said. In a statement released early May 14, Yıldız also expressed concerns that the death toll could rise.

#Mineur
#Accident
#Charbon
#Turquie

Turkey, China in talks over $12 billion coal energy investment : Minister
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Exit la compagnie des Emirats Arabe Unis initialement pressentie pour investir dans le très important bassin de lignite d’Afşin-Elbistan dans la province de Kahramanmaraş (raisons inconnues pour expliquer l’arrêt des discussions et l’annulation d’un deal en 2013), place aux pourparlers avec les Chinois

Turkey and China are in talks over a $10 billion-12 billion investment deal for the Turkish Afşin-Elbistan coalfield and power plant project, according to Energy Minister Taner Yıldız

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#Turquie

Russia keen on gas investment in Turkey
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Russia has expressed interest in acquiring or building Turkish gas-fired power plants and will also propose building a natural gas storage facility here, Energy Minister Taner Yıldız told reporters

#Gaz naturel
#Turquie
#Russie

Energy minister : Drought may result in summer electricity shortages
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Nationwide drought that has brought water reserves to low levels may reduce the amount of electricity that Turkey is able to produce, said Energy Minister Taner Yıldız on Monday in Ankara, fielding questions from the press after a meeting with members of the Bursa Chamber of Trade and Industry (BTSO).

“Precipitation levels for the months of March and April were not what we had hoped for. We will see in the upcoming months if levels increase, but if they don’t, I will unfortunately have to say that our electrical output will decrease,” said Yıldız, specifically referring to low levels of reservoirs in the eastern and southeastern regions of the country.

#Electricité
#sécheresse
#Turquie

Attacks render #Iraq-Turkey #Oil pipeline unusable: minister
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An oil pipeline carrying crude from Iraq’s Kirkuk oil fields to #turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan is unusable because of persistent militant attacks, Turkey’s energy minister said on Monday. “Of course this is a loss for Iraq,” Taner Yildiz told reporters, referring to the Baghdad-controlled pipeline, which has been pumping way below its 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd) of capacity. (Reuters)

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Analysts : BDP’s regional revenue demand means autonomy
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La peur de la sécession territoriale comme argument invoqué pour refuser de redistribuer la manne énergétique. Quand, le territoire Kurde sert bien les intérêts « supérieurs » du gouvernement turc. Si l’on deséthnicise le sujet, ne peut-on pas plutôt voir dans ces revendications des signes d’une volonté de plus de décentralisation des compétences et de justice spatiale ?

The demand by a leading Kurdish political figure that Kurds should get a share of the income derived from natural resources in Turkey’s Southeast translates into a demand that was immediately rejected by Turkey’s top energy official for recognition of sovereignty similar to the Kurds’ position in northern Iraq, analysts have said.

In an interview published by the Al Jazeera Turk news portal on Saturday, Gültan Kışanak, a former co-chair of the BDP and current mayor of Diyarbakır province, said they, as the municipality of Diyarbakır, wanted a share of the natural resources of the province.

In response to a question about whether they demanded a share from the oil produced in the province, Kışanak said: “Of course, we certainly demand a share. Municipalities should get a share from all the energy resources, from the wealth under and above the ground, and economic riches in the region.”

Turkey’s Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız said, in a statement on Saturday, that it would not be possible to comply with such a demand if it would come to mean recognition, though tacitly, of another state within Turkey.

Saying that they are working on the feasibility of the municipality getting a share of the riches of the region, Kışanak said in the interview: “Our colleagues have been preparing a file [on this issue]. How many oil fields are there in Diyarbakır? What is the amount of production [in oil]? Where is this oil going? In the past, there was a heavy cost [of oil in the region] in terms of environment; we are looking into it. There were serious claims that it [oil production] caused pollution in water wells. Oil is the powerhouse of economy, but the energy is going there [to the Western part of the country], and we are left with the pollution. … This is not acceptable for anybody.”

Eighty to 85 percent of Turkey’s domestic investments in natural gas and oil take place in the country’s southeast region. Drawing attention to this fact, the minister of energy said the yearly amount of investment Turkey makes in this area in the region is as high as $470 million. Noting that Turkish government does not act in a discriminative way against any provinces in the whole of the country, Yıldız said energy investments in the region provide employment for about 3,000 people.

#Turquie
#Diyarbakir
#environnement
#énergie

Cypriot peace ‘to lead the way for energy’
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Le deal énergétique catalyseur de la réconciliation entre la Grèce et la Turquie autour du conflit chypriote ?

Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yıldız has welcomed the latest peace negotiations between Turkish and Greek Cyprus leaders as a step that could pave the way for energy projects.

“The softening between the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the Greek Cypriot administration is, of course, significant,” Yıldız said yesterday, answering reporters’ questions ahead of the Atlas for Biomass Energy Potential publicity meeting in Ankara.

Yıldız also praised the joint statement recently released by the negotiating parties, describing it as “a study that consolidates Turkey’s argument.” Turkey has long argued that the southern Cypriot authority should share the income from the sale of recently discovered off-shore energy resources with both sides of the divided island. Turkey is opposed to Greek Cyprus exporting oil and gas, saying the energy wealth also belongs to Turkish Cypriots. This stance has led to accusations of “gunship diplomacy” from the Greek Cypriots.

However, the recently agreed upon statement recommends recognizing the equal statuses of the two states, while aiming to bring the divided communities closer under a federal government.

#Chypre
#Turquie
#Grèce
#Energie

French energy giant inks deal extending presence in Turkey
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The agreement covers Turkey’s second nuclear plant slated to be built in the Black Sea province of Sinop and a 2-billion-euro thermal power plant project in the southern province of Adana.

The deal was signed by the Chairman and CEO of GDF SUEZ, Gérard Mestrallet, and Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yıldız on Jan. 27, marking an expansion of energy cooperation relations between the parties.

As part of the deal the Turkish government and the French energy giant have reached a preliminary agreement for establishment a 1,320-megawatt (MW) thermal power plant in Adana.

#Energie
#Turquie