[I News From Turkey Oil and Natura! Gas Discussed at the ITU The 16th "Oil and Gas Seminar and Exhibition" was held atthe İstanbul Technical University (ITU), between June 29 and 30. The event Is now a tradillonal happening, and recelved great attention from the representatives of power-relaled civil authorities as well as several buslnessmen, academicians and forelgn sclentists. The seminer contınued tor two doys ond o totol of 23 speokers presented repcrts on 29 subjects. Appfoximately l 00 porticlponts attended fhe seminar. andit wos cıosed with a cocktail and dinner during a Bosphorous Tour. The presentat i on thot recelved the most ottention was by Volkan Edlger, fhe Energy Consultant tor the Presldent. Ediger soid thot the USA was consuming oil and naturaı gas fası, that the oil era has come to an end, and that the hydrogen age Is about to start. The ı 6th '011 and Gas Seminer and Exhibition" organlsed by İstonbul Technlcoı University (ITU), Faculty of Metaı Engineering, Department of Oil and Natura! Gas Engineering, started with the openlng oddresses. Atter the speeches Prof. Mustafa Onur, fhe Head of the Deportment of Oil and Naturaı Gas Engineerlng and Prof. Mahir Vordor, Focuıty ot Metaı Engineering Dean, ploques were glven to the graduates celebrot l ng thelr 25th anniversary of graduation from ITU. Veysel Türkel, the İGDAŞ Studies and ProJects Director, who gove a speech during fhe sympcsium, gove lnformotlon about the "Princess lsıands Seo Pipe Une Projeci''. Türl<el said fhaf there ore no lndustrial facilities in theislands, ond that the pipe llne to beinvested there will not be feasible. Türkel soid, "Stili. in line with our service approach as İGDAŞ, we ore obliged to moke !his lnvestment" , ond exp l oined thot 'bose loying' method will be applied tor installing the pipe line. Türkel stated that the deepest pcint between the islonds is 35 metres and that they wlll be instaııing the line by attachlng 24-metre ıong pipes. He exploined !hat speclal vessels will be used for this purpose. and soid, "The pipes will be attoched sectıon by secfion, and the pipe will be installed inside the seo. The plpes wlll be covered with 5 cm of concrete. The concrete used will set in ı 5 minutes. in order not to damage the plpes during the instollotion, thelr weights ore reduced by one third. The plpes will be loid ot ıeast ı meler below fhe bottom of the sea". Türkel added thot the engineering works tor the pipe llne projeci thot will connect the two sides ofİstanbu l hove oıso storted. Enerji Yatırım Holding General Manoger Gültekin Çınar presented a declarotion aboutthecountrywlde naturaı gos dlstribufion works of EYH, ond made an economy anolysls of noturol gos distribution networks. Çınar sold thot thelr objectıve is to make a difference tor economy and fhe society. Çınar added fhat their distribution operations bring commerclal life to !he city ond informed the portlciponts obout the operation of d i strlbution componies and the natural gos converslon process. Çınar tolked abouf the investments in the city, fhe revenues ond expenditures of componies. and planning and profitability ıssues, ond he added fhat the ıocal admlnistrotions ond the conversion componies must take charge, and that the society has to be informed accurotelyoboutthe worl<s carried out. ---------------�--------------- 2005 goal is %40 in Sivas We have evaluated the developments in !he city with Mustafa Karabacak, Direclor of Operatlons of Sivas Natura! Gas Delivery company, Sldaş, who telis !hey have done the bulk of thelr work in 2005. Worl< on naturoı gas infrastructure started on August ı5th, 2004 in Sivas. 250 service boxes were installed in Sivas in 2004 whi l e 2,500 meters of steeı and ı 4,500 meters of PE pipelines were loid. Workin the cityintensifi ed in 2005. Sidoş Operatians Manager Mustafa Karabacak summor l zes the point !hey have reoched in 2005 and fheir goals tor 2006 as • We hove added 22 thousand meters ofsteeı and ı 25 thousond meters of pclyethylene pipeıınes. -Doğal Gaz Dergisi , 2006/7 We have instolled on odditlonaı thirty two hundred service boxes. There has been a total of ı 70 km of pipellne work fhaf was performed in Sivas. Four dlstricts hove utlllzed natural gos !his post winter. We will deliver gas to five more districts fhls yeor. We are plonnlng to instoll ı 00 thousand meters of pclyethyl ene and twenty five hundred meters of steeı pipelines. ' We will be supp l ying gos to %75 of the homes in the clty as o resul! of our work. The remalning %25 is made up of ghettos and resldent i al oreos wi fh development problems. These are areas that are not permitted to develop, but !hey wlll be granted permission in the future. Our gool ıs to reoch more people. We have aımost covered the clty center in the post year. Thls yeor we ore workingin areos where the pcpulation is dense but !here are no centers. We have completed the maJority of the infrostructure. We will have no more problems in three months.'
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