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Gazprom says ups gas flows to Turkey after blast

Published October 19, 2012 Updated October 19, 2012 08:35am

 

Gazprom's exporting arm, Gazprom Export, said the Turkish company Botas has requested to increase gas supply via the underwater Blue Stream pipeline to 48 million cubic metres a day.

 

"Gazprom export approved the request," it said in an e-mailed statement.

 

The gas flow on a pipeline carrying Iranian natural gas to Turkey was halted due to an explosion in eastern Turkey late on Thursday which also wounded soldiers in a passing military vehicle.

 

Turkey is Gazprom's second-largest natural gas consumer after Germany.

 

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