Turkey 捜し出すing better 条件 to 新たにする gas 供給（する） 契約s - energy 公式の／役人
By Dominic Evans
ISTANBUL, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Turkey 推定する／予想するs gas 供給者s to 申し込む／申し出 more 競争の激しい pricing and 柔軟性 if they want to 新たにする long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 契約s totalling 16 billion 立方（体）の metres a year, a 上級の energy 省 公式の／役人 said.
More than a ４半期/4分の1 of Turkey's long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 gas 契約s 満了する／死ぬ next year, 含むing 輸入するs 経由で pipeline from Russia's Gazprom and Azerbaijan's SOCAR and a 液化するd natural gas (LNG)を取り引きする Nigeria.
競争 from cheap U.S. LNG and the 可能性のある for Turkey to start its own gas 生産／産物 in the 黒人／ボイコット Sea have changed market dynamics, the Turkish 省 公式の／役人 told reporters.
"Old-fashioned" gas 契約s, which are often 索引d to oil prices and commit 買い手s to 刑罰，罰則s if they do not buy their 十分な 割当, no longer match market realities, he said, and prices should be 始める，決める against those at major gas 中心s.
"We started to discuss whether we are going to 新たにする (or)whether we are going to find an 代案／選択肢 供給（する）," said the 公式の／役人, who spoke at a 要点説明 on 条件 of anonymity. The 決定／判定勝ち（する） would depend on whether 供給者s "approach with same old habits - no 柔軟性, not very 競争の激しい price 申し込む／申し出s".
In that 事例／患者 "I don't think we will see the 存在するing 契約s continue," he said.
Turkey relies on 輸入するs for nearly all its oil and gas needs. In the first half of this year 輸入するs from Russia and Iran fell 支援する, while 供給（する）s from Azerbaijan 増加するd and 購入（する）s of U.S. gas rose はっきりと.
"The U.S. all of a sudden became the second largest (LNG) 供給者 to the Turkish market in the first part of 2020," the 公式の／役人 said. "The main 推論する／理由 was they were very 競争の激しい."
BLACK SEA GAS
While Turkey's gas 消費 is likely to 増加する, にもかかわらず a 運動 for renewable energy and 代案／選択肢s such as 核の 力／強力にする, last month's 発見 of a major gas field in the 黒人／ボイコット Sea opens the way for 国内の 生産／産物.
Turkey says the field 含む／封じ込めるs 320 billion 立方（体）の metres of recoverable gas, and Energy 大臣 Fatih Donmez said last month that data 示唆するd more will be 設立する as 演習ing continues deeper under the sea bed.
"Most likely there is an upside 可能性のある and we will 発表する it hopefully soon," the 公式の／役人 said. "The timeline will be most likely in October, because we are trying to analyse two 付加 可能性のある reserve areas" under the 現在の level.
大統領 Tayyip Erdogan said in August Turkey would start pumping gas from the 黒人／ボイコット Sea 発見 by 2023 - a 象徴的な date 場内取引員／株価 the 100th 周年記念日 of the Turkish 共和国 - but the 公式の／役人 said 十分な 生産／産物 would take longer.
"The timeline we 発表するd is for the first gas 配達／演説／出産," he said. "It's not going to be the 高原 生産／産物, which will take at least an 付加 two or three years."
While that timeline is ambitious for an 沖合いの／海外の gas field lying under 2,000 metres of water, the 公式の／役人 said Egypt had brought gas onstream from its Mediterranean Zohr field with 類似の 速度(を上げる）, and two factors would work in Turkey's favour.
The 質 of gas from the Sakarya field in the 黒人／ボイコット Sea was good, meaning there was no need for 抱擁する 投資 in gas 過程ing, and Sakarya lies just 170 km (106 miles) from an 存在するing pipeline along the 黒人／ボイコット Sea coast, he said. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Dominic Evans; editing by Richard Pullin)
