News From Turkey Bursagaz started the most advantageous subscription campaign in its history, The subscription fee will be divided to 1 O instalments for the first subscription campaign of 2006 that started in May 1 . Bursagaz introduced the first subscription campaign of the year 2006 at the Bursa Çelik Palas Hotel, with a press conference with the attendance of Hüseyin Konçak, the General Secretary of Bursa Metropolitan Municipality, The people of Bursa will be able to subscribe, with the "2006 Great Subscription Campaign", which is the most advantageous campaign held by Bursagaz until now, and they will be able to pay the subscription fee in 1 O instalments. With the campaign that will be held from May 1 to July 24, 2006, the main target audience in the houses and businesses in the 1 O regions included in the 2006 investment plan, Furthermore, the people of Bursa living in ali the alleys and streets where natural gas lines are located will be able to benefit from subscription with 1 O instalments,Ertuğrul Altın, the General Manager of Bursagaz, spoke in the lntroducflon meeting of fhe "2006 Grect Subscripflon Campalgn" said fhaf !his campaign ıs fhe most aCNOnfageous I campaign held by Bursagaz until now. � Botaş Tender Commission approved the bids received for the tender to transfer to the private sector the 4 BCM natural gas coming from the Western Line, one of the two branches to receive natural gas from Russia. in accordance with the Natura! Gas market Law, Botaş held a tender to transfer to the private sector the 16 BCM portion of its annual 25 BCM natural gas importation commitment, which corresponds to 64 per cent; and it was able to receive a suitable bid only for one contract of the natural gas from Russia. This contract corresponds to 16 lots from the previous Turusgaz line, corresponding to 4 BCM, the contract of which will expire in 2022. The tender outcome approved by the tender commission is expected to be approved by the Botaş Board of Directors as well. After this stage, in order for the transfer to take place officially, the mentioned country needs to receive the approval certificate. in the tender held by Botaş on November 30, 2005, the companies had presented to the commission the "preliminary approval certificates" obtained from Russia. Four bids received from Shell Enerji, Bosphorous Gaz (Gazprom-Ali Şen partnership), Enerko and Avrasya Gaz were considered valid. Shell Enerji offered 2.01 million dollars for 1 lot, Bosphorous Gaz offered 1.81 million dollars for each lot, for 3 lots, Enerko offered 1 . 6 million dollars for each lot, for 1 O lots, Avrasya Gaz offer 910,000 dollars for each lot, for 5 lots. Accordingly, Shell, Bosphorous and Enerko will receive the lots they are asking for, but will buy 2 lots instead of the 2 they ask for. [111 Turkey lnitiated the Arbitration Proceedings with ıran Turkey decided to change the agreement signed for the lnternational Turkey-Austria (Nabucco) Natural Gas Pipe Line Project aiming at transmitting the resources at the Caspian Region and the Middle East to Europe, and started the arbitration process for the disagreements that increased recently with ıran, Turkey accomplished several important projects recently to become an energy corridor in the east-west and north-south axis, and it is one of the most important route countries for Europe, which is trying to diversify its energy resources recently. Turkey will appoint a specialist British lawyer to make changes in the Nabucco Joint Venture Agreement that is signed in accordance with the British laws. The agreement stipulates that any country (vendor) may enter the Nabucco line, and this is considered to weaken Turkey's position which is at the energy crossroads in the region, and therefore the revision of the agre e ment 1 is an obligation. � -1 Doğal Gaz Dergisi , 2006/5
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