News From Turkey BTC, the Project of Century Has Started Turkey, an important tronsition country between the eostern countries with energy resources and the western energy consumer countries, has completed the most importont regional projeci of its history. Baku-TbilisiCeyhan (BTC) Raw Oil Pipe Line, called the Silk Road of the 21st Century was officially opened with o magnificent ceremony held in Ceyhan. After the dinner given by President Ahmet Necdet Sezer to approximately 650 guests including Azerbaijan President ilham Aliev and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvill, on July 12th, the ceremony held in Ceyhan the next doy received world-wide attention. President Ahmet Necdet Sezer gave a speech during the ceremony and said that the Ceyhan Terminal, which had transported lraqi oil to the world markets for 2B years, is now going to send the Caspian oil to the world markets as well. Sezer emphasized that with the BTC !ine that started operations, Turkey is now positloned in the centre of the new global energy map, and that with the operation of BTC, the important role that Turkey undertook for centuries in the reglan where Europe, Asia and Africa intersect, is even more enhanced. Technical Characteristics Capacity: 50 million tons/year [Daily: l million barrels] Total ıength: 1774 km (Azerbaijan: 440 km, Georgia: 260 km: Turkey: 1.074 km) Total pumping station: l O [Turkey: 4) Estimated service life: 40 years Cost: 3.6 billion dollars The advantages of the project • Turkey will become a key country in the Eurasia energy corridor. • With the decrease of the tanker traffic, the burden on the Bosphorous and Dardaneııe Straits will diminish. • Ceyhan will become an oil port. • With the full capacity of the line, the revenues Turkey will obtain from the transfer and the ıoading of the oil will reach 250 million dollars. • Thanks to the !ine, the Caspian raw oil will become an alternative source for Europe, independent from the Middle East, and will help the objective of diverse resources and routes for the EU countries. • The line will connect Southern Caucasia and Central Asia to Turkey, and from here to the Western Markets, and will be an important milestone in the successful completion of the Eastern-Western Energy Corridor. - --------~ --------- Turkey and IAEA To Cooperate For Nuclear Energy Minister of Energy Hilmi Güler said that Turkey, wanting to shift to nuclear technology through nuclear energy production will undertake joint works with the lnternational Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Turkey is planning to put three nucıear plants with a total combined capacity of 5,000 MW in service by 2011-12, tor which the project will start next year. Güler, following a meeting with IAEA President Muhammed EIBaradei who was in Turkey, said, "Baradei has expressed his pleasure with the operations. We will have joint works within the nuclear energy program, and they will continue." Baradei stated !hat he has discussed the developments in nucıear energy with Güler and that !hey have focused on Turkey's gravitation towards nuclear energy. Baradei, who said that they have exchanged ideos on how to carry on in the next few years by examining their experiences from the post few years, also called attention to the facı !hat nuclear energy is cıean, reliable and economically competitive. "I hope we will be able to work together from now on as we did so far," said Baradei. Doğal Gaz Dergisi, 2006/8 - 1 AN nların ak ol 1 Tel: (0216)' 497 40 61 (0216) 497 34 82 Faks: (0216) 497 40 62
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